Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the dangers of too much Fish support became noticeable around election time, Mrs. St. George declared: "Nobody can pin a Fish label on me. Ham Fish would support a wooden Indian against Bennet." Then she went on to carry all but one of her counties...
While there can be little argument with subsidized research, it is obvious that further endowment on the 1945-46 pattern will only give credence to the "research-laboratory" label that is tacked to the name Harvard too frequently. At best, this situation is endowments can cause a tremendously lopsided University, with faculty and student talent naturally funnelling off either into other colleges where their specialties are not given orphan-child treatment. At its worst, a hit-and-miss endowment policy can neglect faculty salaries (which, at certain levels, Harvard can scarcely neglect much longer) and other immediate needs until...
This week Bolivia had a civilian government. A junta headed by Supreme Court dean Nestor Guillen took over provisionally. The vicious military clique that had given Bolivia its fascist label faded, momentarily at least, into the background...
...delegates around the Luxembourg Palace council table exuded international friendliness. Cheerfully and without rancor they discussed a difficult problem: was it right to label a wine as a "Bordeaux," even if it had been diluted with inferior Algerian grapes? The cheerful worriers were delegates to an international wine convention which met in the back rooms of the Palace. When Ernie Bevin was told about their presence, he sighed wistfully: "I bet they got away to dinner at a respectable hour...
...last few years many U.S. doctors have become fed up with Dr. Morris Fishbein, leading mouthpiece for the American Medical Association. Particular gripes: 1) Fishbein's booming attacks on proposed Government medical programs were giving the whole A.M.A. a "reactionary" label; 2) more than hyperthyroid opposition was needed to head off the threat of "socialized" medicine...