Word: reporter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then, with Mrs. Dulles, he drove off in his limousine to Walter Reed for the long-awaited examination as to whether the spread of his cancer has been arrested by radiation therapy. The Associated Press reported the President had received a "discouraging" report on Dulles' condition. But Dulles' decision on whether or not to continue as Secretary of State will depend on the Walter Reed tests...
...hours, the back-to-workers whooped and hollered at predictably anti-Administration speeches from such Democrats as Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson (who announced his plan for a legislative-executive commission on unemployment to report in 60 days) and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas (President Eisenhower, "the kindly Kansan, has unwittingly become the captive of hard-faced men"). The U.A.W.'s Reuther, in a high-pitched, rhythmic singsong? pulled out all the stops, deriding Eisenhower for playing golf and quail hunting in Georgia, and conjuring up the memory of the good old days of World War II, when everybody...
...recently approved report of the Committee on Science in General Education, the Committee suggested that the goals of a science course for non-scientists were 1) communication of "a knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science, and 2) to give the student an idea of the methods of science as they are known today...
Commenting on her course, Nat. Sci. 9, Mrs. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Professor of Astronomy, denied "the slightest need for a change in Nat. Sci. 9," even though she "doubted" that the course meets with the recommendations of the Committee. She asserted that "no matter what the Report says, when I give a course, I give it the way I want...
...Administration is also under pressure not to let the transgressions of its students reach the public. Some Boston papers are eager to receive any report that will lower the public estimate of Harvard, and Harvard authorities are just as eager to frustrate them in their desire. Thus the beating of town youths may go almost unpunished if the athletes involved are valuable to the university; for it is better to let them off with a stern warning than to put them on probation or expel them and risk the nastiness of sensationalist press coverage...