Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back-slappingly friendly, but they wanted to see a little zip. "Cut out the banquets," said Connecticut's well-fed Senator Bill Benton. "We've come here to ask some important questions, and we want the whole story." A Briton remarked unhappily on the second day, "This isn't a conference, it's a court of inquiry...
...broadcasting the address of a speaker invited by the Student Republican Club. The speaker: Wisconsin's Red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy. Reason for the ban, according to Dean Edmund G. Williamson: "I hear that McCarthy won't come unless there is a broadcast. That indicates that he isn't coming to speak to students, but to counties in western Wisconsin or somewhere...
...salary, but I do know that he's always been pretty much of a Scotchman. Hell, he saved his money. The house itself might well be now worth $50,000. But I don't think he spent much more than $25,000 for it." He isn't sure how big the modern mansion really is. His daughter, Jean, had drawn the plans, never got beyond the first floor, which contains a mere six rooms. As for the car, well, it isn't exactly a Cadillac, and it is two years old anyway...
...This isn't the first time Earle Newton has turned a shoestring into a magazine. A graduate of Amherst, where he founded its literary magazine, Touchstone, he served as a Navy historian in World War II, then went back to his job running Vermont's Historical Society. He decided to start a magazine devoted to regional, grass-roots history, try to make it as readable as a good newspaper. The state put up $5,000 to start Newton's quarterly Vermont Life. Fearfully, Newton ordered 11,000 copies for the first issue; it sold out in three...
...child. He saw no point in mere textbook education which, fed to passive students, "reduced man to mind, and mind largely to memory." A child learns by living, said he; and therefore education must be based on action, every action leading to better action: "Thinking, unless it works, isn't worth anything...