Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...requirements did not, of course, end with excellence, because excellence alone does not define the University's concept of "a liberal education." Indeed, some maintain that excellence has very little to do with liberal education, and is but an inescapable phase of America. These voices added that since excellence was less emphasized by Harvard's anomic culture than by most universities, a Harvard education was perforce more "liberal...
...Repetto will attempt to maintain his mastery over Yale's Eastern Inter-collegiate Baseball League champions this afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...book out of Widener. It will also show, through trick photography, how the opening of a new field such as Slavic can suddenly necessitate the purchase of very large numbers of books. Both examples emphasize why the library, despite its size and resources, will need additional funds to maintain its current position...
...their own on the common defense. (In 1950 U.S. allies had 500 jet aircraft; now they have 13,000.) The military program provides not only for direct purchases of military hardware but for aid to create a sound logistic base (e.g., supply lines) and to enable allies to maintain forces they could not otherwise afford. In South Korea, for example, the U.S. now contributes $600 a year to help maintain a South Korean soldier on the 38th parallel in the common interest; to support an American soldier there would cost the U.S. $6,000 a year...
...Southern Democrats might have been predicted as easily as those of Knowland and the hard-shell Republicans. But in following his conservative Texan instincts, Johnson has punched holes in one of the more important Democratic balloons--that is, its representation of itself as the party of idealism. Cynics will maintain that very few people vote Democratic for reasons of ideals--we all pride ourselves on being hard-headed and practical. But to a great many people Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Truman (yes, call them balloons) have meant something. and this something, though intangible, is politically important. At the moment, this...