Word: pleased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But before the present freshman class succumbs to rumors blowing up from the river and starts beating its heads at the doors of "the" House with fervent pleas, it is a good time to de-emphasize the differences. Basically, the best criterion for picking a House is the number of...
But organized labor's main target was General Electric's ex-President Wilson. The bosses denounced Wilson for his "arrogant seizure of control over manpower," for "his equally arrogant refusal" to listen to labor's pleas. They wanted manpower controls under their always accommodating friend, Labor Secretary...
Though the admissions office and the scholarship office both make their decisions and their awards independently, there is still danger in giving the alumni a free rein. If alumni concentrate on good football players, the admissions office will not get its "broad base" and may find it difficult to resist...
The U.S. continued to inch uneasily but steadily toward a controlled wartime economy. Handicapped by lack of a staff to enforce blanket controls, Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine was trying to achieve the same effect by hints, pleas, threats, and by crackdowns in specific cases.
Three weeks ago something akin t panic spread through Sun Life's Montreal citadel ("Largest office building in th British Empire"). Montreal's financial district in St. James Street buzzed with rumors that the Aliens and allied U.S speculators had gobbled up 35% of Sun Life's...