Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murmur of correction ("Secretary!") rose from the press tables. Connally, beaming under the klieg lights, brushed off the advice: "He's still Under Secretary until he's confirmed." Then, after recalling that Acheson was still a citizen without public office, he added: "I don't mean technically...
...played football at the University of Michigan, and had served 6½ years in the Marines. After Mike won, a checkup showed that he was 27, that he never went to the University of Michigan, and that he served only 23 months in the Marines. "I didn't mean anything wrong." Mike explained. "It was just one of those things in a campaign. I just needed some real material to beat Pratt...
...chance to practice," he says. "They have to study, you know, and many of them will go into their events tomorrow evening fresh from exams taken during the day." This, plus the fact that the Crimson entries will be facing the cream of collegiate track athletics should mean a tough night ahead for the runners...
Private schools, of course, mean Catholic schools, for the most part. If a program of high-powered federal aid goes to public schools only, the parochial system could not maintain equal educational standards. Catholic organizations are, therefore, deeply concerned with getting a share of any federal funds. Under the Taft kind of compromise, parochial schools would get stronger in some states, and weaker in others, depending on the power of local Catholic pressure groups. Supporters of aid to private schools (not Catholic alone) say that the basis of federal grants should not be public control, but public service. They maintain...
...rent rise--$30 for emergency doubles--will go into effect starting in September. The room and board rate for next year will hit a mean of about $765. Opinion on the new increase varied from students who considered the move "an obvious necessity" to an rate father who termed it "a danmed outrage...