Word: hoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every member of any University faculty to a post of permanent tenure associate professor or above. Not an associate professor of pediatrics is appointed without Conant's approval. The methods for making permanent appointments vary from faculty to faculty, but in the college Conant began a system of "ad hoe" committees which are set up every time a department is about to make a permanent appointment Separate committees are set up for each appointment and their membership usually includes scholars from other universities along with local faculty members but Conant is always the chairman...
Against this passive resistance, the "theistic philosopher" has a tough row to hoe. His argument is not scientific, and it depends on a very intangible premise-"it is more like the reading of signs in a certain light." This premise Father Turner calls "a sense of contingency," i.e., some vague recognition, however arrived at, of man's "creatureliness"-his dependence on a higher cause or authority...
...last month Ingram stopped at the farm of Aubrey Boswell, a white neighbor. He wanted to borrow a trailer to haul his hay. Ingram saw one of the Boswell children walking toward the tobacco barn carrying a hoe. He walked across the road, he said, and through a field knee-high in corn, looking for Boswell. When he got closer and saw only "three boys," he turned back. He went on down the road and borrowed a trailer from someone else. Later that afternoon, two deputy sheriffs arrested him. One of the "boys," they said, was 17-year-old Willa...
...least money; admen and manufacturers (2% and 9% respectively) make the most. There are men in the class who can do almost anything, says the class report, except "dig ditches, run an elevator, operate a lathe . . . repair a television set, press clothes, cobble a worn pair of shoes, or hoe the corn...
...hoe committee which selected Tom Bolles originally would have preferred a Harvard graduate for the job, but the salary offered was not big enough to entice the proper men to leave their respective fields for a life in athletics. Various other reasons made other likely prospects impossible...