Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This request is founded upon a principle which I have always considered as resulting from the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution of the United States. While holding an employment in the public service, I have always felt myself interdicted from the acceptance of any present of value...
...Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great extent inherent in Parliamentary governments, that the success or failure of either one will rest ultimately on the people at large. It would be foolish to attempt to predict the outcome of the present political skirmish on the basis of devaluation, its results, and the debate. If the Conservatives return to power at the next election, and then manhandle devaluation, the laborites will have a strong talking point in succeeding elections. Whatever happens, the pound is still hot, and must continue to be tossed...
...English Composition, and Theodore Brameld, professor of educational philosophy at New York University, disagreed with Ralph W. Sullivan, author of last year's controversial bill to remove tax exemption privileges from schools employing Communist teachers, and Isadore H. Y. Muchnick'28, formerly on the Boston City Council and at present a member of the city's School Board. The Forum was moderated by Francis Keppel'38, Dean of the Faculty of Education...
Sullivan cited Oliver Wendell Holmes' dictum that "no man is free to shout 'fire' in a crowded theater" in defense of his thesis that Communist Party tactics are a "present threat" to American freedom and should be opposed by whatever legislation is needed. Emphasizing the implications of the present international situation, he said, "There are only two contestants in the world scene today--the United States and Russia. We have no alternative but to consider Russia as an enemy...
When you think of Columbia's Lon Little-coached football teams, which have been furrowing the Baker Field turf for the last 19 years, you think of the Luckmans, the Kusserows, the Swiackis. That's why the present Little eleven, which meets Harvard in New York tomorrow, is so unusual...