Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominate Dr. Ralph J. Bunche . . . for his great contribution toward international understanding and world peace...
TIME'S statement that John Dewey's progressive education has led to an emphasis on creative thinking in our public schools is suffering from too great a desire to make his birthday happy. His ideas have led to the very opposite. The present American high-school student is an intellectual dolt who thinks that knowledge is gained through memorizing facts...
...York Daily News - both Dulles supporters - concede to Lehman and O'Dwyer." Said beaming Harry Truman: "It certainly is a most happy evening." The Old Man, Too. While the ladies whooped it up, the President launched into a few appropriate, off-the-cuff remarks. "Every woman in the great state of New York has done her best," he said with a bow to the assembled members of the Women's National Democratic Club. "That means she's gone to the polls and had the old man go too ... I will tell you that 2% more women vote...
...rally was lit by floodlights and punctuated by firecrackers. Hickman, Jackson, and Albie Booth, former Yale great, appeared to say a few words. Three female cheerleaders also showed up, with rally leaders explaining, "If Harvard...
Aside from these qualifications for the post, Seymour practically inherited the presidency. An ancestor, Joseph Colt, received an honorary degree at the first Yale commencement in 1702. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas Clap, was president of Yale College from 1740 to 1766. His great-uncle, Jeremiah Day, filled the same office between 1817 and 1846. His grandfather, Nathan P. Seymour, was a graduate of the college, and his father, Thomas Day Seymour, was Hillhouse Professor of Greek Language and Literature...