Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these statements is entirely contrary to a conclusion reached by the American Council on Education's 1947 report...
Educators who opposed the velleities of the President's report were slow to speak up; they were afraid they might be misunderstood. But here & there a voice was raised. First was the Commission on Liberal Education of the Association of American Colleges, which carries some top names in U.S. education, led by Gordon Keith Chalmers, president of Ohio's Kenyon College. But the commission's phrases made no headlines. U.S. colleges, the commission insisted, had always insisted on students with "above average capacity." Did that make them "aristocratic," as the President's Commission had suggested...
Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the murder-intercepted letters from Caesar's better-known enemies, the report (to Cleopatra) of a secret operative of the Egyptian government, a discussion with Caesar's physician, confidential messages from his wife's maid, and, above all, Caesar's private papers. Suppose, further, that these documents were arranged like the evidence in a murder trial to show who was guilty and why. How would the result compare with the accounts given by Shakespeare and Suetonius...
...Before the legislators returned, the President had ready for them a report by his Council of Economic Advisers stating that aid to Europe: 1. Was a "calculated risk" which U.S. economy must undertake...
...Emmet canvassed in Ireland, and Paris for support of a new insurrection, his every move was reported to Whitehall, and many a suave Irish host scurried from the dinner table, after entertaining Emmet, to report the latest items of treasonable talk. On the rare occasions when Emmet suspected that he was being double-crossed, he was not very worried. He wrote: "If a precipice is opening under my feet from which duty will not suffer me to run back, I am thankful for that sanguine disposition which leads me to the brink and throws me down, while my eyes...