Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes, the G.O.P. needs clean hands. This was proved last fall when Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson and a few other Republicans got dishonorable mention in the course of investigation into Washington influence-peddling. Up to that point, exposure of the Democrats had been rolling along with ever-mounting momentum. After that point, the steam began to go out of G.O.P. exposures of Democratic corruption...
...geared itself to the upsurge of alumni activity at other colleges. F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, former Director of Scholarship Aid and new Dean of Freshmen, claims that the College lost many contacts during the moratorium. Conant believes that the movement for "Balance in the College" lost momentum about this time...
...January 15, President Lowell spoke: "Intercollegiate sports resemble the world of pro baseball leagues . . . the games in the Coliseum in Rome. . . .Surely as the aim in instruction is to give education to all, that in athletics should be the physical culture of all." Lowell's backing gave Bingham the momentum to cary out his plan in the following 25 years...
...side stand the faculty of the graduate schools of education who hurl back with equal momentum the innuendoes slung at them by the professors of the liberal arts colleges. The root of the controversy, say the Faculties of the Arts and Sciences, is that the schools of education pay too much attention to the mechanics of education, rather than to what subjects to teach...
Last week, before the Women's National Republican Club in New York, Nelson Rockefeller charged that the U.S. is now "ignoring, neglecting and underestimating" its "fundamental ties with the governments and peoples of other American republics." Said he: "InterAmerican unity has lost much of its vitality, momentum and direction. Disunity and unrest in many parts of Latin America are far more widespread and serious than most people in the U.S. realize. The U.S. has dealt with hemispheric problems on a spot basis, only after they have reached crisis proportions...