Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More important, however, than this is the effect of the election on the political orientation in western Europe. Although this is largely guess work, I would fear that the Republicans would view, with more equanimity than our present administration is likely to do, the emergence to power of de Gaulle in France and of similar political forces in other countries. The Truman administration may, with some justice, be characterized as a Liberal-Labor Government. As such its influence in western Europe will probably be thrown in directions favored by the Labor and Liberal Governments of Britain and the Scandinavian countries...
Dibble also revealed that plans are under way to present a repeat performance Saturday night after the Yale game. Word from New Haven has been extremely encouraging, he explained...
Selection for the committee was based not only on expressed interest in student advising, but also on "open minds," Buck said. None of the members is associated with any part of the present advisory system...
...biography of Victoria, which is Bolitho's ninth about this period, has nothing of Strachey's amused, amusing manner, nothing of his skepticism and silky grace. Above all, it does not contain a single sentence that even runs a risk of being thought dangerously brilliant. All present or accounted for are the famous, fascinating figures of the great era-Baron Stockmar, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, et al.-and so frigidly correct that they appear to have been hewn from frozen blocks of Birds...
Paul added that "growing antagonism" to the plaque idea, as exemplified in a Boston Globe editorial last Saturday, might help swing the tide. The editorial stated that "present undergraduate students, so many of whose lives were in pawn" should have the strongest voice in a choice...