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...idea of awarding Harvard chairs is crystallized long-held opinion in various University departments that long-term employees should receive some form of recognition...
...develop better roads and schools through community cooperation. With notable restraint and suspense, CBS's Danger (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.) re-enacted the story of Polish Skipper Jan Cwiklinski (played by George Voskovec), who escaped from his ship Batory in 1953 despite close Communist surveillance and his long-held conviction that he need not be "a political...
...Thomas (killed last January in the crash of a private plane), built up Braniff Airways from a one-plane charter operation in Oklahoma to the point where it piled up 550,385,051 passenger miles last year and is the first U.S. airline to challenge Pan American's long-held monopoly of Latin-American routes; of cancer; in Oklahoma City...
Born in 1902 on a Lynnville, Indians, farm, Jordan still finds his principle source of relaxation in the farm he bought in terms of farm utility a long-held amateur farmer who buys every new farming device he can conceive a use for. As yet he has found no means of rationalizing in terms of farm utility a long-held ambition: The purchase of an M.G. sports...
...Brown president has radically altered the college's admissions policy to meet competition. The new policy puts primary emphasis on attracting the intellectual. It has replaced the long-held Brown tradition of provincialism with new plans aimed at attracting a widely-distributed student body. Almost half the the cosmopolitan university threads onto College Hill from out of state, particularly from the St. Louis area...