Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factor that President Morse does not point out is that the making of Case Western Reserve [May 3] into a Midwestern rival of Caltech and M.I.T. is being done at the expense of the liberal arts. That he plans to upgrade the university by "building from strengths we now have" only emphasizes the fact that the humanities play a secondary role at this university. We believe that the situation at C.W.R.U. exemplifies the general trend in this country to train rather than educate students...
...major American city. As Lausche's reign crumpled last week, a new dynasty was dawning about the personable Stokes. His older brother Louis, 43, became the Democratic congressional nominee in Cleveland's 21st District by topping a 14-man field, with 28,680 votes to his nearest rival's 15,110. Lou Stokes, who will face Negro Republican Charles P. Lucas in the fall, adopted the campaign slogan: "Another Stokes for the Same Folks...
...greater federal action-especially money-is urgently needed to help cities build all kinds of waste-treating facilities. In fact, the Secretary of the Interior really ought to be the Secretary of the Environment. To unify federal leadership, he might well be given charge of the maze of rival federal agencies that now absurdly nibble only at their own slice of the pollution mess...
...eternally adolescent marshmallow bogs of homosexual passion. "Duncan Grant is the full moon of heaven," he wrote to Maynard Keynes, who was one of his earliest friends and confidants. In fact, Keynes was something more. Holroyd discloses that like Strachey, Keynes was a homosexual and a frequent rival for the affections of winsome young men; it was a proclivity that did not affect Keynes's later standing as one of the world's great economists...
...Olympics at Grenoble produced their quota of incidents: the angry withdrawal of North Korea-because it insisted on being called the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"; the cries of outrage from East Germany after three of its tobogganists were disqualified for cheating; the attempts by officials of rival nations to vilify France's great skier, Jean-Claude Kilty...