Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University takes great pains checking on the accuracy of such applications. In a case in which an applicant for a scholarship attempts to prove his relationship to the nephew of a man who died in 1698, the scholarship office has a job on its hands...
Hofer regards the period between now and February as "a time for experiments, without prejudice to the regular master, who may accept them or reject them as he sees fit. I will try to promote, among other things, a greater interest in house athletics and a closer relationship between the tutors and staff of Adams House and the students...
...realism comes chiefly from the absence of the typical villain-hero relationship that marks the average movie plot. Henry Fonda has the leading part but he only rebels against the mob; he cannot stop the lynching. Fonda takes the position of a muse that realizes, even raises his voice against the injustice, yet when the end comes, he has really been only a bystander. And the villains too are not singly responsible but are rather cowards whose weaknesses combined make a criminal potent enough to kill three...
General Douglas MacArthur announced the beginning of the end of a four-year-old U.S. experiment in anti-fraternization. Purpose of the new regulations, said SCAP in its best military English, is to establish "as far as is practicable the same relationship between Occupation personnel and the indigenous population as exists between the U.S. troops stationed in the U.S. and the indigenous population of the U.S." The new rules, moreover, are intended "to permit an attitude of friendly interest and guidance toward the Japanese people, which is reflective of democratic ideals...
...appointments have gone to the sons of influential fathers. *Another group, the "Founder's Kin," long had special privileges, e.g., they could stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head. If the platter broke before the head had enough, the claim was valid...