Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this manner, the elected representatives of the Radcliffe student body conducted portions of their past three meetings. At the first closed meeting, the Council members talked about the Student Government's foreign scholarship fund, which evidently is short of money. Last week's closed session, as leaks in the security system revealed, was a discussion of the current club merger proposal, an issue shrouded in secrecy by the Administrations and the Student Affiliation Committee as well as the 'Cliffe Student Council. Yesterday's off the record" portion was also on the organization plans...
...When the $38 billion figure was hit upon, it was not by any manner or means a sacrosanct figure," said the President at his weekly press conference. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy started defense spending on the way up one day last week by restoring $170 million lopped off the current research and development budget by Charlie Wilson; he also authorized the Air Force to lift its emergency ceilings on monthly payments to aircraft companies (see BUSINESS). In view of the higher defense spending, said the President, it would require "serious retardations elsewhere" in the budget to hold the overall...
With this terse statement, Princeton officially ended athletic relations with Harvard some 31 years ago this Nov.11. The reasons for this break were not a stolen drum or an injured linesman but a feeling "of many Harvard men that Princeton plays football in a manner unbecoming a gentleman and cares more for athletic victories than clean sportsmanship." Whether or not this feeling was prompted by the Tigers beating the Crimson 36-0 and 34-0 in 1924 and 1925 is unknown; the fact is that the two institutions did not compete against one another in any sport until...
...comments of one eminent Princeton observer indicate the storm did not brew over night. "There is a feeling among many Harvard men that Princeton places chief emphasis upon uniformity of type and manner of dress, not on things of the mind; that her outlook is immature and provincial, and that membership in the Big Three is Princeton's chief claim to glory...
...greater part of the address was tub-thumping--in a sedate and presidential manner--for the achievements of American science. Then, almost casually, he conceded that the Russians have surpassed us in certain scientific areas...