Word: keys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Williams' argument is that the key to American policy in the past seventy years can be found in the famous frontier thesis of Frederic Jackson Turner. An undeveloped hinterland into which capital could be poured was seen as the prerequisite for a prosperous economy, and--in the "crucial" panic decade of the 1890's--"Americans reacted to the threat of economic stagnation and the fear of social upheaval by turning abroad for new frontiers...
Crimson depth, decisive several times during the spring vacation trip, should once again be the key factor. For the Engineers have three very good players and then tail off rather rapidly. Their number one man, sophomore Raul Carmen, the top player in Cuba, has performed on two of that country's Davis Cup teams. He must be favored over Crimson captain Ned Weld, who defeated Bob Bowditch for the first singles spot in a test match yesterday...
...this strenuous action did not get enough trains back on the run. So many key trainmen stayed out that service was reduced by as much as a half and trains ran hours behind schedule. Rotting cargo piled up at freight sidings through the country, and a food shortage threatened Mexico City...
...from Lehigh), and had proclaimed: "I don't know a thing about the Dewey decimal system, and I'm not going to learn. I've got a staff to do that." What is worse-although Randall is still confident that no one suspects-is that the key he wore and still wears was not issued by Phi Beta Kappa, but by Kappa Beta Phi, a whimsical outfit that honored the unscholarly achievements of gay Lehigh blades (Randall is a Phi Bete all right, but he has misplaced his key...
...commissioned Ralph I. Straus, a director of his family's R. H. Macy & Co. and an economist who served ably with the Economic Cooperation Administration, to study the situation with an eye to formulating a new Government policy. Last week, after distilling answers from questionnaires sent to 955 key U.S. businessmen, Straus issued a report that the State Department heartily endorsed as "a new and fresh look" at the problem...