Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oral Exams. Nowadays, the initiations are preceded by a cocktail hour, and a semi-sober group shouts nonsense while the novitiate attempts to read his part. It is usually not even witty, and it is certainly never an academic discipline. There has recently been a move to reform these affairs, and the next initiation is expected to return to the ideal of the days of Kittredge...
...There was a vacuum and the Communists were trying to fill it. They weren't the only ones, but they not only had a program, they did things. They organized huge demonstrations. They acted while others just talked of reform...
...knew how important it was to give one man the responsibility of organizing and leading troops of different nations. Should present-day France, if I may say this in passing, perhaps resort to the same solution by giving one man, or better, a small team, temporary power to reform its political institutions, which, as everyone agrees, are unsound...
Thus, installed in office with the most punctilious attention to the "socialist legality'' he has made such a point of. Khrushchev went on to make a 2½-hour speech for his big reform of 1958-a program of boosting farm output (or "catching up with the U.S.." as he puts it) by taking tractors and other farm machinery from state-run "machine pools" and turning them over to the collective farms...
...January to a completely separate company in Nashville named Space Enterprises, Inc. Heading this out-ht is another pair of publishing amateurs: President George J. Merrick, 24, a junior executive in an engineering company and Vice President Richard T. Heagy, 26, an English major at Vanderbilt. One quick reform: a boost in page-ad rates from $200 to $1,200. Now that the magazine is aloft and gathering speed, its young staffers are even talking of selling 1,000,000 copies an issue by the end of 1958 Says Space Salesman Heagy: "It doesn't hurt to aim high...