Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said President Eisenhower pointedly in a weekend speech at Gettysburg College: ''The course of appeasement is not only dishonorable. It is the most dangerous one we could pursue. The world paid a high price for the lesson of Munich-but it learned it well...
...three fields share an integrated curriculum for part of the first year in an effort to demonstrate the close inter-connection of the practice of architecture with civic and social problems, and of city planning with aesthetic design. Indeed the separation into distinct departments is a reflection of the high specialization in civic design in this country; in many foreign countries the distinction between architect and urbanist is considered artificial and dangerous in its encouragement of an overly technical and mechanical approach--planners computing the incremental cost of the necessary cubic feet of air per average inhabitant in a sanitized...
Wynn's freshman crop once again looks promising, and, he says, it "could be as good" as last year's unbeaten team. Joram Piatigorsky, a high-ranked California junior, is established pretty well at number one singles, with Kal Pollen, Chris Clark, Larry Sobel and Mark Woodbury battling for the next four positions. Other contenders for singles spots are Jonathan Roosevelt, Jim Gordon, Roger Pauley and Jerry Black. The doubles teams, still undetermined, will no doubt be drawn from these nine...
...infield of Frank Robinson on first (where his fielding is still a question), Johnny Temple (.306) at second, Roy McMillan at short, and the slugger Frank Thomas at third is almost equal to Pittsburgh's. GusBell, Jerry Lynch, and Vada Pinson (the best looking rookie in the league) rank high in a league filled with good outfielders. Ed Bailey is easily the best of the catchers...
MacLeish "has touched the lives of millions with beauty and poetic truth," the citation accompanying the degree said. "In his public career he has exemplified that same high sense of civic responsibility and human dignity which has marked his writing. As librarian of our national Library of Congress, as leader in the creation of UNESCO, he has exercised a profound influence on the intellectual life of our time...