Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title essay is a superb example of intellectual propaganda in that it is aimed at convincing an intelligent audience without the labor of produing a potent argument. Dr. Conant's difficulty is not that he has no reason for supporting intellectual freedom and research in the University, but that he fails to answer the arguments of his opponents...
...philosophy. This approach is summarized by the assertion that "in those lands and at those times when there has been a flowering of intellectual and artistic activity, there has likewise been violent dissension among scholars and artists." If backed up by an historical demonstration, this argument would have been potent if not conclusive. It is not backed...
...sent Allan Shivers to Austin for three terms. Five men, so far, are opposing him; the stiffest competition will come from Ralph Yarborough, choice of the liberal Democrats. Yarborough, an Austin attorney, has lost twice to Shivers (in 1954 by only 92,000 votes), but is still a potent campaigner...
...most potent court tennis team in American university history swept every match but one in last weekend's annual Invitation Tournament against Yale and Princeton at New York to give Harvard its second straight James H. Van Alen...
...Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, 58, for more than a quarter of a century one of the most potent and famous figures of British imperial power in the Middle East. Last week, suddenly and savagely, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan sacked and shipped off the desert proconsul who had made its army-the British-equipped Arab Legion-the best fighting force in the Arab world...