Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the crude and subtle methods of attack have been used to keep speakers off university platforms. The crude approach keeps Communists out by labeling them as radical and therefore undesirable. This device is also used to handle all shades of liberals and left-wing people. The subtle approach is employed by universities to bar men under indictment or on trial from speaking--in spite of-the fact that men in these categories are still innocent in the eyes of the law. Furthermore, men actually convicted in the civil rights cases mentioned in the survey should not be considered criminal...
Some of them, however, including recent oath legislation, contain broader provision, designed to keep Communists or members of "subversive" organizations out of the teaching profession...
...contracts. This was squelched when the Air Force appeared happily bearing the results of its tests. The B-36 had left standard jets gasping for air at its 40,000 foot operating altitude; even the F-86, which had grabbed the world's speed record, could not keep up with it at this height. The tests convinced Secretary Johnson and Congress, in that order; on April 23, the keel of the "United States" was ordered off the ways...
...order to become an accredited college, we must have a certain number of the faculty with proper degrees. Smith with his master of science does not fit in. We would like very much to keep Moore and Hyde. Fahy and Mabee, like them, are capable of commanding higher salaries than we can afford. We've given them as much advance notice as possible to help them find other jobs...
...instructors. Many instructors are all too glad to part with corrected exams; others will at least allow students to examine their bluebooks. Some contribute stacks of old exams to waste-paper drives. Obviously a uniform policy is needed, not only permitting a student to see his paper, but to keep it if he chooses...