Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waters, Fingers, Wells. Lilienthal seemed to be trying to make two points. One of them was that where no secret information was involved (and therefore no question of national security), no federal investigation of a federal scholarship holder was justified. Mixing his metaphors, Lilienthal declared: "Once you have passed the secrecy line, you are in the broad, tragic waters of the federal government's finger in education." His other point was that such bans, once begun, might be extended to "potentially subversive" students. Bureaucratic decisions "as to who is pure and who is not pure" would, he cried, "poison...
...agreed to this procedure. Said Lilienthal, completing his change of front: "I have no question at all that we should not provide public funds for anyone who advocates the overthrow of this government by force or violence . . . whether [the work] is secret or non-secret." Just to make doubly sure, O'Mahoney announced he would "write into law a provision of such clarity" that Lilienthal would have no other choice...
...increasing skimpiness of swim suits has created a doctor's dilemma, Dr. Milo Brooks told the California Medical Association : the profession is undecided where to make vaccinations without leaving visible scars...
...Prefecture de Police finally granted permission. Of course, they demurred, one must proceed carefully in these matters. In 1876, it was said, an unprincipled character had climbed to the top of Paris' famed obelisk, in the Place de la Concprde, for the base purpose of advertising a new make of candle. But two Egyptologists who wished to make the ascent for the purpose of studying the obelisk's hieroglyphics-that was different. There was only one thing the officials asked: that the ascent be made as early in the morning as possible, "so as not to attract...
Last May, an employee of the General Motors Corporation appeared in Washington, D. C., to make some statements before a House subcommittee on Labor. This employee, Adam J. Stricker, Jr., claimed that "subversive" and "Marxist" ideas were taught in one of the Workers' Education Service classes...