Word: lukewarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come from the South. Some Southern students have threatened to leave, and alumni clubs are considering withdrawing their financial support if Princeton reverses its color policy. It appears that the Southern minority is determined to keep Negroes away from the college gates, while not a single member of the lukewarm and passive university administration has yet had the courage to come out in support of the "Princetonian's" policy...
...Cold to Lukewarm. Donald Nelson had become skeptical; he demanded that Kaiser produce detailed plans. Kaiser did not have them: he was leaving the designing and engineering up to Howard Hughes; mass-production details would have to wait. But three days of tumultuous conferences gave Washington a chance to hear and understand the Kaiser viewpoint, and at week's end the atmosphere had warmed a little...
...York the closest approach to a political cinch since the 1932 Presidential campaign. The American Labor Party, whose 400,000 votes have been the decisive Democratic margin in New York since 1936, has announced that it will put its own candidate in the field rather than support the lukewarm Mr. Bennett. This move will split the Democratic vote like a meat cleaver through a chicken...
...keep restless stomachs constantly occupied, Dr. Winkelstein rigs up a quart-sized can high over each patient's bed, fills it with lukewarm milk to which a level teaspoon of soda has been added. One end of a long, latex tube attached to the bottom of the can is swallowed by the patient. The tube, which is very soft, and scarcely larger than macaroni, is easy to swallow, does not keep the patient from sleeping, can even be used in the day time while he sits in a chair. The milk drips into his stomach constantly, its flow controlled...
...most likely Republican nominee against Bennett is Thomas E. Dewey. Last week Dewey was having troubles. His backing was lukewarm, thus far. Some wiseacres thought Bennett's election was a sure thing if New York's hybrid American Labor Party would support him. And Democratic bosses were pretty sure that A.L.P. support would follow the President...