Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...science major can request course reduction in order to do a special project in English which interests him. In these cases, however, while the student's own department may approve the course reduction, the department in which the student would like to do research is sometimes reluctant to grant approval to someone outside the field...
...House. The South will not endure the North's dictation, and so her sons ride off from Wingate Halls garlanded with tears and cheers, to christen the Stars and Bars in Yankee blood at Bull Run. Though the war ends with Lee's majestic surrender to sloppy old Grant, the wounded sons return home to begin a spirited restitching of their tattered Dixie-land until Lincoln--brave, tall, sad, lonely Lincoln--is assassinated in a historical facsimile, and Northern monsters, carpetbaggers, give the Negroes more than equal rights, disfranchise the gentry, and set the South back countless years...
Brown University will grant free cuts to juniors and seniors on a trial basis next year, the college's administration announced recently. At present all students in good standing who are not on Dean's List are allowed only three cuts per course...
...Korean war expansion goal, even though the program was closed out at the end of 1955. Knowing that the company's application was still on file, Virginia's Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson, chairman of the Joint Defense Production Committee, had asked ODM not to grant the write-off until the committee investigated. In granting the award, ODM Director Gordon Gray said that no commitment had been made to the committee, attributed the delay to the fact that the Hells Canyon case was bogged down in litigation until the Supreme Court ruling. But since Idaho Power had already...
...Died. Grant Mitchell, 82, longtime (since 1902) character actor of stage (A Tailor-Made Man, Tide Rising) and screen (Hell's Kitchen, Cinderella Jones); in Hollywood...