Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were not enough to be one of the ugliest cities in the U.S., Pawtucket, R.I. (pop. 81,000) has in the past also been one of the most corrupt. Under the long rule of Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy, its school buildings crumbled with neglect while Democratic bosses boasted of the city's low tax rate. But McCoy died. Though his successors in the city hall were also reluctant to allocate adequate sums for school repair, in 1954 Pawtucket got a school superintendent named Edmund J. Farrell who had an urge for reform. After months of wrangling. Farrell finally...
...Program will no doubt determine the direction of Harvard's evolution through the next several decades. Yet in the midst of all the impending plenty of this Great Educational Barbecue, the President's comprehensive recommendations seem to have glossed over one small but significant area of long-time neglect--the problems of financing and organizing original research by members of the Faculty...
Hanson has discovered that many of the students who had course reduction regretted the lack of direction in the program. They would like some formal supervision for their work, to prevent neglect of their projects. Hanson, however, feels that this is purely a departmental problem...
...realized that missiles will soon replace aircraft as prime consumers of taxpayers' funds. For forward-looking space-flight workers that is already history. Next step beyond missiles is true space navigation, and no manufacturer who wants to stay on the Government's contract list can afford to neglect it. So practically every outfit even remotely connected with aircraft or missiles was represented at San Diego, and trying hard to look as space-minded as possible...
...with the nomination of Col. Laurence E. Bunker '26 for a position on the Board of Overseers, I believe I detect a slight bias. It appears to me that you have chosen to emphasize a few seemingly unsavory elements in Bunker's record and have tried your best to neglect mentioning the many achievements which are to his credit. You seem to dwell upon the connection of Col. Bunker with "so-called right-wing causes" and, particularly, with the suggestion that his nomination is an expression of alumni dissatisfaction with the appointment of the James Lecturer, Oppenheimer. I could...