Word: hoarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academic atmosphere where shallow sophistication is often the social posture, and skepticism a handy critical tool, the beauty of personal warmth and kindness is frequently forgotten. But there are those who feel that a desire to hoard information like gold can never replace the certainty that learning should be sifted and tempered with humanity to breed wisdom...
...West Point of the Republican Party," the HYRC lists 160 members, 20 of whom "would come in and do anything for us." Though the club is most famous for what its president calls "our annual circus," elections are calming down, and candidates are no longer allowed to import a hoard of friends just before balloting time...
...military; prosperity returned to the Calvinists, but only at the price of a middle class invasion from which they never really recovered. At war's end, demobilization in Europe brought a huge influx of refugees--not merely the weary Britons looking for a second chance, but also a dynamic hoard of bright-eyed central and east Europeans. The newcomers, adaptable and eager to make good, often had technical skills and or artistic talents...
...integrated oil companies, who do most of the importing, scoffed at this reasoning, since the order also restricts oil from Canada, which is highly unlikely to be cut off by war. If the U.S. needs a big hoard, they argued, it should import more rather than less, keep its own oil for emergencies. They called the mandatory order, which will boost the price of oil, simply a protectionist victory for the hard-lobbying Texas independent oilmen. What worried free traders everywhere was whether the quotas would open the door to new protectionism for other industries, under the guise of "national...
...American university is, as David Riesman has noted, the last refuge of free enterprise. In the literal sense it is a marketplace, where knowledge takes the place of money as common currency and people meet to exchange their ways. Scholars, like businessmen, hoard up this currency and use it to advance their ambitions. It is perhaps significant that the university library resembles a bank not only in its muffled impersonality, but in its very monumental achitecture...