Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Extra-curricular activities are also important in the selection process, but only as "a secondary factor." If two students have done equally good scholastic work, the decision will almost invariably be made in favor of the one who has also found time to indulge in some worthwhile outside activity...
...fruitless to apply rational arguments to an analysis of Dulles. His recent actions are only part of one great irrational process. Dulles tries to act toward Red China as he would toward an ill-mannered neighbor, or travelling companion. Not only does he refuse to consider diplomatic recognition or U.N. membership for the world's largest country, he concludes that it is dangerous to learn anything about...
...Exeter Saturday afternoon, the freshman swimming team accumulated its third straight victory in as many meets, 48 to 29. In the process, Gary Pildner set a Harvard freshman record in the 100-yard backstroke with a 1:02.8. The previous mark was 1:03.5, set in 1950 by Donald Mulvey...
Before any free nation can press its hopes and aims, no matter how high-minded, into workable and acceptable form, they must first be wrung out in terms of politics. This was the process, with all of its charges and countercharges, conspiracies and compromises, that was at work last week as the U.S. attempted to wring out a workable policy for the Middle East. It was at work as U.S., Canadian and Indian delegates huddled and haggled on a new approach to Israel v. the Arabs in the gleaming corridors of the United Nations; it was at work as Democratic...
...Revolution. Over the weeks, while groaning, muttering and mugging, he has managed a staggering variety of hard ones, e.g., identifying the main Balearic Islands (Majorca, Minorca, Iviza and Formentera); the only three baseball players who have amassed more than 3,500 hits (Ty Cobb, Cap Anson, Tris Speaker); the process of photosynthesis. On the six occasions when he has muffed questions, e.g., the identity of the Republican vice-presidential candidate who died before Election Day in 1912 (James S. Sherman), Van Doren's luck and gambling skill have averted defeat...