Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund to keep the University going. Then Harvard bows, pushes a $10,000 chair under our bottom and says, "Pray, make yourself comfortable...
...event that University officials should refuse to make either of those moves, the Progressives will demand total removal of the Navy from the University, Bluestone says...
...occasion was a trip to St. Paul for the 100th anniversary of Minnesota as a territory. Truman ordered the presidential train hitched up, happily climbed aboard his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He would make a "nonpolitical, bipartisan speech," he declared with a grin. What was that? Said Truman genially: "It is a speech that throws no bricks at any other political party." Big Bill Boyle, national Democratic chairman, beamed concurrence. "Sure," said Bill. "I'm along to see that he doesn't do anything political." Both were almost overcome with the humor...
...point, big John angrily kicked the camera in a news photographer's hand. Later he turned on his harassers. "You can't make a hippodrome out of this," grumbled the hippodramatic leader of the United Mine Workers. "You are interfering with my private business...
...those heldings, when considered together with the number of foreign students at the University, make it clear that Harvard refuses to be limited to just one sentiment...