Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe students present were Louise N. Bell '59 of the HDC, Janet Webster '60, president of the Radcliffe SGA, and Martha E. Miller '59, a CRIMSON editor. Harvard students were Bryce E. Nelson '59, a former president of the CRIMSON, Ralph T. McLean '59, former president of the Harvard Yearbook Publications, and Harlow Russell III '60, president of the Pierian Sodality...
...even over several days. And there are definite disadvantages in fighting the fever. Left alone, the temperature and its fluctuations are valuable clues to what ails the child. Diagnosis is hampered by antifever drugs, which may conceal important signs-most notably in rheumatic fever-and prove actually detrimental. Always present are the dangers of allergic reactions and overdosage...
...Price of Alaska. Why is Wall Street intrigued? Hollywood has adjusted to the threat of TV far better than anyone expected. Box-office receipts have dropped some 20% since the high of 1946, but moviemen expect attendance to level off at its present 40 million a week. Though no one knows exactly how many pictures Hollywood will produce this year, the total will probably be about 250, far below the 600 of Hollywood's heyday, but hardly the output of a dying industry. Twentieth Century-Fox says that it is "enjoying the greatest production spurt in 13 years...
Calvin plus Savonarola. There Hung set up regal headquarters and proclaimed: "The New Jerusalem ft the present Nanking." The advance guard of his army rolled to within 100 miles of Peking but never captured the Manchu capital. For the next eleven years Hung's Nanking was ruled with the puritanical fanaticism of Calvin's Geneva and Savonarola's Florence. The decapitated heads of the Decalogue-breakers hung above the city's gates. Adulterers were wrapped in oil-soaked cloth, and set aflame. Hung himself maintained a harem that grew to 88 wives and concubines, but defended...
Attacking control of policy decisions by administrators and trustees, Flemming called on scholars to take a more active role in formulating non-academic policy. He also suggested that colleges make a greater effort to present to Congress their views on legislation concerning education...