Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make matters more difficult for the politicians, the Hatch Act of 1939 forbids federal appointees from politicking. "Patronage isn't much of a political weapon any more," said a Midwesterner. "When you do get a guy a job, he quickly tells you he's 'Hatched.' Sure he owes you his job-but he can't work for you. He wraps himself in the Hatch Act and says he's got to pretend not to know you any longer...
...sororities differ in what they offer, they differ in importance. A boy is identified to the Middlebury community immediately by the fraternity he is in, but a girl's sorority makes no difference to either girls or boys. In fact, it doesn't matter in the least if she isn...
...Georgia isn't going to stand out alone," Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, commented last night. There should be "a diminuendo of noise" concerning the decision. Sutherland added...
Attacking the Administration's foreign policy, he cried: "We have been caught bluffing by our enemies . . . We stand in clear danger of being left naked and alone in a hostile world . . . You remember what the Vice President said . . . 'Isn't it wonderful that finally we have a Secretary of State who isn't taken in by the Communists, who stands up to them?' Maybe he never really said it. Possibly it was his famous dog Checkers. But Fala would never have said that...
Away from the public's eye the college's social life is closely tied with that of Boston, so closely in fact that undergraduates find that the big city's night clubs, theatres, and restaurants are only a subway token away when the college entertainment isn't up to snuff. The effect of this metropolitan competition is to improve the quality of the college productions and give them an air of professionalism which a small college show in a small community never achieves...