Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncertainty Removed. The big threat to the Treasury lies in the fact that Benson's scheme removes all uncertainty about what a farmer can get for his corn, no matter how big the crop. The price: $1.12 to $1.15 per bu., about 12? lower than high supports would have been, but 6? to 9? per bu. higher than the present price peg for noncompliance corn. At Benson's price, efficient growers can make good money on all the well-fertilized hybrids that their big tractors can cultivate...
After two weeks of deep-blue silence and dress-white evasion had failed to keep the wretched matter quiet, the U.S. Naval Academy brass harrumphed and admitted that the story in the Baltimore News-Post was "substantially correct." Gist: a bouncy, 17-year-old high school girl named Susan Johnson had arrayed herself in a midshipman's uniform, invaded the academy, stood formation, attended mess with 3,600 midshipmen, had gaily run down dormitory corridors popping into rooms (so another account ran) and made a clean getaway. First upshot: two midshipmen charged with helping her face dire punishment...
...Auburn (9-0-1.)-content just to keep winning, no matter how unimpressively, got by fired-up Alabama 14-8 to complete its second straight season without defeat...
...architecture is done with such talent that it goes perfectly with the Ecole Militaire," decided former Chief of French Museums Georges Salles. "A splendid poem in concrete and glass," said Paris' leading art review, L'Oeil. And from the top of the Eiffel Tower, guides were beginning matter-of-factly to point out UNESCO as one of the marvels of Paris. Modern architecture, like modern art, was beginning to seem like something the French had been in favor of all along...
...Chicago (his headquarters), while American insisted on Manhattan (its headquarters). Said Manhattan Federal Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan, who ordered the strike postponed for at least a week: "It all gets pretty silly. The attitude of neither party commends itself to the court. Both have failed morally in the matter...