Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chaired by David Rockefeller '36, President of the Rockefeller Center for Medical Research, the five-man committee toured the College last spring. It centered its discussions around questions raised by the prospect of College growth, and issued a strong recommendation for increasing the size of the undergraduate body. The report went to the overseers early in May and was subsequently approved...
...material improvement." But it is still nationally controlled television, and the University has not indicated that it believes the program any more legal than in 1952. The most satisfactory explanation of the new policy is that the University has decided to live with the program because there was not prospect for change...
Next town they come to, Burt goes to work and soon has his money back in pocket. But by that time he has something else (Diana Lynn) in prospect, almost as hot as Texas and not nearly so flat. She's a schoolmarm, and she plays him mountain music on what sounds like a clavichord. Poor slavey-she's got more sex than teacher, but what good is sex, she asks herself ruefully, against a clavichord? Silly girl. The hero soon enough succumbs to manifest destiny...
...prospect of the A.F.L. C.I.O. merger, said Truman, is "scaring the daylights out of the Republicans," and there is evidence that "Republican politicians are getting ready to play pretty rough next year." Then he looked up from his text and added: "If the Democratic Party invites me into the campaign, they'll get all the 'rough' they want...
...compromise, but violence drowned their voices and left the field to extremists. Faure's way out was characteristic of the balancing French politician: to adopt the moderate recommendations of courageous Resident General Gilbert Grandval, while sacrificing Grandval himself to the wolves. At week's end there was prospect of a patched-up compromise. It promised to settle the question of who should be Sultan of Morocco by having no Sultan at all. Much depended on the timing, for if either Grandval or the puppet Sultan departed without the other's going too, one side or the other...