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...addition of three more dental chairs. This program should be started before the fund is completed. The Harvardman's health is too valuable to be neglected. If prompt action is not taken to provide ample and convenient dental care, such well-known American expressions as "Flash that pearly grin, Tiger" and "You'll wonder where the yellow went" will assume bitterly ironic and tragic proportions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Eye for an Eye | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

Those freshmen who survive their first year without acquiring the uncomfortable sensation that Lamont's glassy exterior has begun to grin diabolically at them, will probably regard the prospect of three years in this new edifice with equanimity...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Bleak House | 10/8/1957 | See Source »

...away at sunny Sea Island, having kept in telephone touch, Orval Faubus proclaimed his triumph: "The trouble in Little Rock vindicates my good judgment." But the grin was soon wiped off his face by the dramatic rush of events in Washington and Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quick, Hard & Decisive | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...considerable number of Congressional lobbyists returned home this year with a wide grin of content, while a group of foreign policy experts sadly shook their heads. The chief reason for the lobbyists' "job well done" expression was the Congressional cutback in the Administration's foreign aid bill. The conservative business, manufacturing, and extractive industries which these men represent feel safer from economic competition from the "developing world" and feel somewhat more secure about a tax rate rise with foreign aid cut by a billion dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plan Ahead | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

...scroll for his work on the civil rights bill). Openly tapping the well of conservatism in California, he continued to call for restrictive labor legislation. Did he think he was driving California Republicanism to suicide to further his own ambitions? Why, said Bill Knowland with his frozen grin, a brisk primary might inject new life into the California G.O.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Gouges from Goodie | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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