Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Despite the fears of men of little faith, the Class of '49, and the Classes of '45 and '50, have proved that we can make our ideal of broadened opportunity work in the nation's colleges and universities. . . . To the classes of the future, we owe the assurance that the experiment will be continued...
...anti-party underground. All adoration must be devoted to "Big Brother," the Stalinesque dictator whom no one has ever seen, but whose "black-haired, black-mustachio'd" visage, pregnant with "power and mysterious calm," stares from walls in the streets and living rooms. Oceania's ideal citizen is Comrade Ogilvy...
Because the Church is a minority group in America, its methods of control here are different from those in Spain, for example. Spain comes near the Church ideal, the state which restricts its functions to the maintenance of order while subsidizing the Church in its control of education and morals. In America the strategy involves threats of boycott to offending newspapers, magazines, movie producers and distributors, and radio stations; establishment of a separate school system and attempts to infiltrate and control the public school system; and attempts to force legislative bodies, by the customary pressure group means, to impose...
Retiring President Mildred McAfee Horton thought Dr. Clapp was "ideal." Wellesley's 1,600 girls would probably agree. They would find in their new president a lively first lady who scorns bridge and refuses to take up knitting. But she can read Scott by the hour ("no problems, no psychoses"), plays the violin, and can make students sit up and take notice when she lectures on American history...
...Elis have been taking maximum workouts for the last half week, since their exam period has already ended. Their time trial was considered "unsatisfactory" by Walz, who added, "we'll have to go faster." They rowed under ideal conditions, while the Crimson undercut them by 27 seconds with a slight following wind and an incoming tide. Bolles called his varsity's time "satisfactory under the conditions." The upstream record is 2 minutes and 2 seconds, set by Bolles' first crew...