Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breed of true scholar athletes is not yet extinct and that there are plenty of football players who can still want and deserve a Harvard education. But then again, it may be that the rest of the nation's colleges have already turned intercollegiate football into a permanent morass...
...week's end, the deputies lunched privately and decided that the conference had bogged down completely in a morass of side issues. Would Gromyko agree to drop nonessentials, try for agreement on the big question? It looked like the last chance. Gromyko said yes and the light was green again...
Gellhorn's solution to the morass into which loyalty and security provisions have plunged the nation's laboratories is a program which would (1) be confined to scientific work which was very closely connected with national defense and (2) put the burden of proof on those measures which would tighten security rules. Such "scandals" as the Fuchs spy case emphasize the need for intensive measures directed against espionage, not heterodoxy. The extensive loyalty investigations and "black-lists" have turned up no spies, Gellhorn asserts, but have dangerously weakened the morale of our scientists and our confidence in free inquiry...
...organization was denied further use of this location, and the equipment subsequently retired to the Geographical Institute. These were hard years for the club, and were to lead to its eventual collapse. Students operated from their room on smaller sets during this period, as a morass of red tape prevented free usage of the set in its location at the Institute. The University never owned this building, and the only way in which hams could legally use the set was in conjunction with an obscure geographical course calling for familiarity with radio equipment. The set was not available most...