Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action on the part of the sergeant observer in clearing the plane was the primary cause of my injury; such was not the case. The fire, caused by a severed fuel line, started when we were at an altitude of approximately 1,500 feet. It was necessary to hold the plane in a violent sideslip attitude to keep the flames from enveloping the cockpits; this naturally caused us to lose altitude at a faster than normal rate. Lacking intercom in those days, I signaled the sergeant to bail out; the only delay on his part was difficulty in getting...
...warnings that the College is overcrowded and growing too quickly, there has been little public attention given the exact opposite situation in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. While University Hall ponders which candidates to admit from the swelling number of qualified applicants, Farlow House is forced to hold down the size of the GSAS simply because there are not enough top quality applicants to fill vacant places. At a time when the size of the Faculty is growing, the number of graduate students has actually declined...
...those toying with the idea of an insurgent slate was Massachusetts' timorous Senator Leverett Saltonstall, who, as Republican whip, is the only real Eisenhower supporter to hold a Senate party post. In one brief telephone call, Styles Bridges handled Saltonstall. Bridges said simply: "Lev, you better forget this funny stuff or you won't be whip much longer." As of that moment, Saltonstall was a noncombatant...
...critical barrage went on in private as well as in public. At cocktail parties Tinker was needled mercilessly by Canadians who seemed to feel that they were entitled to hold him personally responsible for McCarthyism, U.S. foreign policy, and "every bit of claptrap put out by Hollywood, U.S. Steel or the C.I.O...
...Stewart receives the promotion, he will become the first Senior Tutor to fulfill the qualification originally intended for all Burr Tutors. The Bender Report, when it decentralised the Dean's Office in 1951, recommended that all Burr Tutors hold permanent positions on the faculty. No Senior Tutor has yet held permanent rank in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...