Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is at once both an advantage and a handicap. Dunster won the Straus Trophy last year, and may repeat this year. As a result, the athletic group forms a tightly-knit unit which plays, eats, and talks together...
...rules, accepts the theory of equal rights for women only grudgingly. In a recent Bundestag debate he stoutly maintained that "the family head must have the final say . . ." A woman Deputy cut in: "Even if the family head is a booby?" Wurmeling smiled coldly and replied: "We should not repeat daily the mistakes of the French Revolution in always thinking only of rights...
...chemical industry ... is still fighting the long-dead German dye trust of 1914. [The chemical companies] finance the American Tariff League and repeat the old high-tariff shibboleths. They can't talk any more about infant industries, but they have seized upon defense considerations as their last argument. They even question American technical proficiency in their tariff speeches, while in separate statements they report extraordinary earnings from extraordinary discoveries and processes . . . The imports are . . . less than 17% of American consumption. Are they entitled to a monopoly of the American market...
...note that has long been unfamiliar in the academic world. Today the U.S. university has fallen heir to much that once belonged to her peers in Europe. In the '30s, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead was challenging it to "rise to its opportunity, and in the modern world repeat the brilliant leadership of medieval Paris." If the U.S. university does rise, says Nathan Pusey, it will not be by curtailing its pursuit of truth, "no matter how unpopular," but by carrying on the pursuit more fully...
...editorial repeated a long-standing CRIMSON axiom: "A book like this has a place in the library." This is hardly inconsistent with past policy or a suggestion that only approved books be made available. Rather, the editorial and Mr. Beck's answer point up the difference between an historical display and the recent collection at Lamont. If the books had been chosen with the idea of illustrating trends in Negro thought, an entirely different presentation was necessary. The books, with explanations of what they represent, should then be fitted into an historical pattern. In this way, the Ford book could...