Word: makeshifts
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...through a plan to keep the private school going full blast, thus prepared for the boycott. Despite the opening of the public school last week, the viscose plant employees stood by the $1-a-week voluntary check-off system first proposed by Leadman's union to support the makeshift private schools. As a result, townsmen noted last week, Leadman's local is "achieving status by the bucketful...
...Stone is the finest architect in the world," says she), and the embassy does capture much of the magnificence of an ancient Indian taj. As in the temples and palaces of old, most of the work was done by hand, each finished piece transported by Indian artisans from makeshift workshops on the grounds. Stone himself was awe-struck by the result. "Breathtaking," he would say to visitors. "Simply beautiful, simply beautiful...
...private coeducational colleges. But its slim endowment of $8,500,000 places it among the respectable poor of good U.S. educational institutions. Carleton's top professors are paid meagerly, its physics and biology facilities are old and cramped, its students need dormitories, and its only stage is a makeshift affair in a 110-seat basement theater. To mend the bare spots in its academic Mackinaw, Carleton has set itself an enormous task for so small a college: to raise $10 million in the next four years...
After a summer and autumn of gloom and despair, the ugly American has almost completely lost confidence in his ability to distill meaning from world affairs. His nation stumbles through the wilderness to cope with crisis succeeding crisis, to preserve a makeshift peace. It is no wonder then, that he has become disenchanted with the symbols that have traditionally expressed his unspoiled optimism: tolerance, dignity of man, democracy...
...Radcliffe that Ada Louise Comstock took over in 1923 was something of a makeshift institution. In 1879 a committee of Cambridge ladies asked Harvard President Charles W. Eliot for permission to hire Harvard professors to teach young ladies. The ladies got their permission and hired their profs-and also female chaperons to sit beside them as they taught. The college prospered under Miss Comstock, but until the last year of her reign, she still had to lure Harvard faculty members each year to teach part time at Radcliffe. Then, in 1943, she outraged old Harvards, gave malicious delight to their...