Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drive. Perle Mesta began her final assault on Washington in 1941. She moved into the exclusive Sulgrave Club, got some professional advice on press relations, and started giving parties. She shrewdly gave a yearly alcoholic "tea" for the women's press corps. Either with rare good luck or uncanny generalship, she ingratiated herself early with Harry Truman. She feted him as a Senator, gave the first party in his honor-a $5,000 blowout-when he became Vice President. She gave a huge "coming-out" party for Margaret Truman in 1946. When Margaret sang in Oklahoma City, Perle brought...
...giant mirror and the intricate mechanism supporting it were good enough for nights when the "seeing" is only ordinary. On such nights the perfection of a telescope's performance is limited by irregularities in the air. Hubble wanted to try the great telescope on one of the rare nights (about 15 a year) when the stars hardly twinkle at all, and astronomers rejoice...
Provost Buck's announcement last night should come as no real surprise to anybody who has kept himself informed of the University's financial theories and present status. The Corporation has followed a rare policy in insisting that all faculties balance their own budgets without help from other sections of the University, and on the two occasions in the past when a deficit existed in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, drastic steps were taken: a ten percent expenses cut in 1940 and a tuition raise last year...
Training for Thinkers. For his students, it was not always a pleasant experience. Morris Cohen seldom answered questions; he preferred to ask them. Like a modern Socrates ("though ... I lacked, except on rare occasions of good health, the courtesy of Socrates"), he wanted to whisk away his students' prejudices. Unlike Socrates, he felt that if their convictions vanished too, there was little he could do about it. He supplied no new doctrines to take the place of the ones he destroyed, gave his students no Cohen-made faith. His job as he saw it was to train "thinkers rather...
...rare foul was called on Yale goalie Burns in the third period for interfering with Harvard players as they crossed the goal mouth, but the free shot, taken by Tom Moseley, was wide of the cage...