Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than many people attach to them. B-plus and B-minus both count as straight B's for rank list ratings and for the student's final record transcripts. The man with a B-plus who has just missed an A has, in a sense, been robbed, while a person with a B-minus has been exalted somewhat out of proportion to his talents...
Leverett House will begin a door-to-door fund drive tonight to raise $900 for the adoption next year of a Displaced Person...
...freshmen also elected Cherry Merritt of Excelster. Minnesota, and Bernard Hall: Nina Ratzersdorfer of New York City and Whitman Hall; and Elisabeth Trygstad of Central Islip, New York, and Briggs Hall, to a committee to take care of the student Displaced Person the class will adopt next year...
Last week "Former Naval Person" Winston Churchill spat angry words against a high wind. The Labor government, said he, "has forced the British people to live in a fool's purgatory upon the generous grants of free enterprise, capitalist America . . . If we are to earn our daily bread in the world, it can only be through the strongest possible individual effort and ingenuity arising from conditions of freedom and fair play...
...guilt as proof that they had been led astray. Intoned one: "The defendants were not only obedient tools, they were ideologically convinced tools. The defendants are victims of a foreign influence." Another made it even plainer where his sympathies really lay. "My client," he said, "is a weak-willed person [who] sold out to the Anglo-Americans. I ask for one year in prison for my client. If he does not like the way I am defending him, he ought to be frank...