Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President had tried every which way to prod Congress. At least four times within the past month, he secretly invited small groups of congressional leaders to drop by Blair House in the evening for pep talks. The meetings all followed the same pattern. Guests arrived about 8 o'clock, were greeted cordially by the President, got a highball, and were drawn into a few hours' discussion led by the President. Among the guests were such Administration stalwarts as Connecticut's McMahon and Minnesota's Humphrey, but there were also a few unpredictable Democrats ranging from Florida...
Yale follows a similar program; Bob Kunned takes his swimming team to a Massachusetts prep school for an exhibition meet, and Bob Hall brings Yale movies along when he drops in at Connecticut schoolboy team banquets.5A map of Yale and Princeton alumni activity would show a similar pattern with different centers of strength. ST. LOUIS and BALTIMORE, for instance, are considered "Princeton towns." Harvard, on the other hand, is far more active in securing the top applicants from MINNEAPOLIS and CLEVELAND, while Yale at present is attracting top students from SEATTLE and PORTLAND. Closer to home, Harvard alumni just last...
...described as "emancipator of his country from British domination." In conditions remarkably similar to those of today, a 1941 story centered around a map titled "Iran-New Focus in Middle East." In 1945 TIME stories reported that Washington's air of hopeless resignation had already become the dangerous pattern for U.S. relations with Iran, left Russia with chances galore to bring trouble. Since 1946 the editors have continued to report on the ineptitude of both British and American policies right through to the time when the present crisis began to take shape last spring...
Griswold wrote a theme song-"Some Insolvent Evening." He took a slogan from a mayonnaise jar-"Keep cool but do not freeze." Gradually, his life began to settle itself into a pattern...
Perhaps the best description of the organization is to say that it is no organization at all. The complete freedom offered the Fellows makes it impossible to characterize the Society's--there is no pattern except that it leaves the scholar alone to do whatever he wants, and to associate under gracious conditions with other scholars. As such it is unique in the country, and epitomizes the whole Harvard attitude toward education.Junior Fellow GEORGE D. HALSEY, Jr. at work in his Mallinckrodt laboratory where he is studying catalytic hydrogenation of ethylene...