Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boasts of a sound faculty, without world-famous names. "There are no [Harold] Ureys or [William Lyon] Phelpses on the staff," explained one professor, "but it is good and solid." There are some famous names, however, among its alumni: John W. Davis, Democratic presidential nominee in 1924; Newton D. Baker, Wilson's Secretary of War, three of the last four governors of Virginia, and two of the last three of West Virginia...
...though he feels that his work is "well-nigh completed," Seymour still worries a good deal about the future of such institutions, as Yale. His chief concern is the same as it was twelve years ago-"absolute intellectual freedom . . . The Yale atmosphere must be so completely impregnated with the sense of freedom that our students going from here will serve naturally and universally as its apostles . . . We seek the truth and will endure the consequences...
...center aisle and peered blearily at Mack. Why, he demanded, had executive bonuses been maintained while the dividend had been passed? Said Mack: bonuses had been scaled down according to the earnings (in 1948, Mack got $20,000 on top of his $104,000 salary). Anyway, he added, good executives "don't come a dime a dozen...
...news for stockholders: March sales were off 16.7% from 1948. Ward's biggest stockholder, Massachusetts Investors Trust (which owns 1.5% of the stock), had bad news for Avery: it would oppose his re-election as a director at next week's annual meeting. But chances were good that indestructible, 75-year-old Sewell Avery would be elected anyway...
...million in subsidies and for "defense features" such as double engine rooms to cut down the danger from torpedoes. The U.S. Lines will put up $28 million. With its 33-knot speed, the 2,000-passenger air-conditioned ship, to be launched in 1952, will have a good chance of breaking the transatlantic speed record now held by the Queen Mary...