Word: onwardness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This, along with the fact that board rates have gone up each year for the last three years, would seem to indicate that the University's "onward and upward" campaign is in full swing. What this means, of course, is that increases of one kind or another will continue each year, until Harvard's "expansion phase" begins to level off. In addition, since it appears that the Program will not achieve its goal of $82.5 million by June, 1959, its failure is only one more reason to expect continued increases in student costs. In the words of one Administration official...
...also expressed the hope that once free, the Congo would keep ties with Belgium, like those that President de Gaulle has asked for from France's former colonies. "Our firm resolution now," said the King, "is to lead the Congolese people, without fatal delays and without rash haste, onward to independence...
Graham was a shade too fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place...
...drifted down Boylston Street as couples passed him, striding onward to the stadium so as not to miss the kickoff. His stares were mostly answered with could looks, but one girl, who was in his Slavic section, smiled gaily as she passed by with her date...
Shoulder to shoulder in Denver's Shirley Savoy Hotel last week sat 1,200 farmers, farm wives, farm economists and farm politicians, gathered in biennial convention to 1) urge federal farm subsidies ever onward and upward, 2) call for the scalp of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson-and 3) elect onetime Typewriter Salesman James G. Patton, 55, to his 13th consecutive term as president of the liberal National Farmers Union. Cried Jim Patton, sounding the N.F.U.'s anti-Administration theme: "Our patience has been imposed upon by those in power chiseling away at nearly every program farmers...