Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comes the Ax. When Bertie dumped his niece, Bazy Miller, as editor last spring and took personal charge of his Washington outpost (TIME, April 16), his new staff gurgled with good cheer. After all, they said, "no matter what you may think of McCormick's policies," he is a good man to work for. Their cheer was shortlived. Instead of pay boosts, there were cost-trimmings and firings. Quick to go were Bazy's pets...
Earlier, speaking at Princeton, he said Harvard, Yale, and Princeton "exemplify the last outpost of private education in the world," but added "they face a trying economic period in which they must look to their alumni to help them financially...
This spirit holds men's hearts in the mow slopes long after they have left for the warmth of civilization. This spirit loosens alumni's purse strings enough to keep their outpost in the wilderness a growing, publicized center of the Spartan virtue--a healthy mind in a healthy body. This spirit nurses class rivalry back to health too, after such incidents as last weeks tug of war accident which sent six men to the hospital...
...will now spend his time interpreting this and fresh data as it arrives. Exact information about the color and distribution of the stars in the southern Milky Way has been obtained with newly developed equipment, built here, and shipped to the University's most remote outpost...
...year-old Boyden station is now, according to Bok, one of the best-equipped observatories in the Southern Hemisphere. Bok reported yesterday that a group of South Africans and Americans living in South Africa has recently agreed to assure the financial stability of the outpost...