Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great waste . . . is that the job is very seldom finished." Henceforth every student should be required to master at least one foreign language, not just to pass some sort of reading examination, but to be able to speak and read with ease. "It is time . . . to call a halt to this retreat toward monolingual isolationism . . . It is hardly necessary . . . to elaborate the statement of Goethe that 'A man who knows only his own language does not know even that...
...vague sort of way, both Short and Eisenhower agree on one thing: UMT cannot be instituted while the Selective Service program is functioning. Apparently they expect the draft to come to an absolute halt, with UMT beginning on its own at some later date, but neither has outlined any plan for the period between the transition, a period which could present innumerable problems. During the campaign, Eisenhower said he favored establishment of a commission to solve these problems, but since dozens of committees have presented dozens of solutions, it is doubtful whether another would come up with anything...
...being "the leading women's college of my home city"; to Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, Mount Holyoke, Vassar and Columbia, $250,000 each; to the Harvard Divinity School, $250,000 on condition that it raises or appropriates another $4,000,000; to Union Theological Seminary, $250,000 "to halt the rising tide of secularism in the world today"; to the New School for Social Research, "a pioneer in the field of adult education," $100,000; to the Academy of American Poets, $100,000 to "stimulate the writing of more good poetry in the United States"; to the American Civil...
...explaining the gift to Harvard Divinity and the Union Theological Seminary, Mrs. Lamont's will said it was "in the interest of helping to halt the rising tide of secularism in the world today...
...youths and workers, led by Communists, attacked Indian government property, cut telegraph wires, damaged railroads, burned rail cars and stoned fire engines, looted railroad restaurants, hoisted black flags of mourning over government buildings. Police, firing on rioters, killed seven and wounded forty. A 13-year-old boy attempted to halt a moving bus by standing in its path, and was run over and killed...