Word: known
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Publishing the HSN (as it is known to no one) are a few hangers-on from the CRIMSON, and, it is hoped, a great many members of the Harvard Summer School. The Summer News is a much more relaxed, informal arrangement than the CRIMSON, and to illustrate how informal, a non-jacket beer-and-coke guzzle will take place at the above-named address this Wednesday night...
...tutelage of his grandfather. He scratched through four years at Dartmouth, studying economics, singing (basso) in the glee club, hiking the hills and mountains of the north country. For 18 years Adams worked for a lumber company in Lincoln, N.H. In the logging camps and offices, Sherm Adams was known as a rugged woodsman and boss who worked ceaselessly and kept his mouth shut. To Rachel White, the lively, attractive girl he married in 1923, Sherm was known fondly as "the Great Stone Face...
...matter of political practice-particularly in the Communist world-leaders of unsuccessful revolutions could expect to end up on the gallows or before the firing squad. Nagy and Maleter might have been quietly executed within a few weeks or months of their seizure, as hundreds of lesser known Hungarian rebels were. But the Russians waited for 18 months and then brutally proclaimed their deed, giving the executions the deliberate quality of a slap in the face to the non-Communist world and of a mighty fist thrust in the faces of the satellites...
...Nkrumah increased his grip, four M.P.s defected from the opposition, bringing Nkrumah's majority up to 77 v. 24. At the same time, it became known that Kofi Busia, now in ill health, intends to resign as opposition leader and go back to teaching at University College. Deprived of its most respected figure, the opposition found itself near collapse. There was no longer much doubt in Ghana as to just "where the power lies...
When Columbia University honored eleven wartime military leaders with honorary doctorates at a special convocation on Feb. 21, 1947,* one of the best known of the names was overseas as military panjandrum of occupied Japan. Setting the books in order, stately General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, whose son Arthur is a sophomore at Columbia College, dropped in on University President