Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alumnus of the American University of Beirut, was financed largely with Egyptian money in the Sudan's last elections four years ago, is campaigning for "closer ties" with Egypt. His followers talk an anticolonial line that often slips over into outright anti-Westernism. El Azhari's main strength is in the cities in the north, while Khalil's speeches for water, cash and cotton go over well in the countryside...
...space where the circus shows off its freaks, directly below the main arena where hockey players hack at one another with stick and skate, Madison Square Garden last week became a colossal art gallery. The most massive exhibition of U.S. painting and sculpture in decades-more than 1,500 works from 40 states and Hawaii-lined 4,200 running feet of plywood panels and sprawled over 40,000 sq. ft. of space in the Garden's basement Exposition Hall. The all-encompassing title of the show: "Art: U.S.A...
...very location of the main campus$#151;only a few blocks away from the state capitol in Austin-was unfortunate, for the politicians have never been able to keep their hands off the faculty. As recently as 1925, faculty freedom was so shaky that Historian Eugene C. Barker solemnly warned: "It is not secret to my academic colleagues here or elsewhere that a call to the University of Texas arouses no elation, and that, for a long time, we have been losing more good scholars than we are replacing...
...with the Salaries. A professional college administrator from Huntsville, Texas, Wilson has done his best for his big (17,000 students) main campus and its various branches scattered throughout the state. He flatly opposed admitting "students who have no chance of doing the quality of work which the university must demand"; last fall he made his university the first state-supported school in Texas to require entrance examinations...
...from the same week last year, after ending 1957 at their lowest point since the 1930s. Net income in November, the last reported month, was down 33% from two years before. The business recession played its part in the railroad's current plight, but that was not the main problem railroadmen had come to lay in Congress' lap. The real trouble with U.S. railroads, said Daniel P. Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads, is the maze of Government controls that prevents them from working out their own problems...