Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps unfair to judge the rushing system entirely in the harsh light of the superficiality, injustice and distress which are its characteristics. Not only does it train the Rush Committees for later life, but a good rushee will emerge broad gauge. Approximately 30 percent of each class is given the advantage of this special training. Although 30 percent is a democratic enough figure, the College Dean's office reports that four fifths of this group attended private schools...
...Persuaded friendly Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to shut down oil production on their 275 wells-thereby depriving oil companies (and themselves) of hundreds of thousands of dollars-so as to force the companies to rush completion of equipment that will salvage precious gas, which was being flared off for lack of transmission facilities...
Major U.S. collecting began with a rush in the 1890s, when a handful of new U.S. millionaires decided, almost as one, to plunge into the art market. They had little experience, but in a time before income taxes, huge spendable resources. They bought widely, and sometimes competitively with one another. In the space of a generation, Andrew Mellon, P.A.B. Widener, Henry Clay Frick, and lesser financial titans transformed the U.S. from a cultural have-not to a treasure house of great art that could rival Europe's best (see color pages...
...explained that "there is no rush to solicit these people because they don't have to get parents' consent." The PBH Committee and Cambridge Red Cross must write to the parents of each student under 21 years of age to obtain permission for donation...
...gubernatorial contest pits incumbent Foster Furcolo against Charles Gibbons, who became the party's rush nominee when Attorney-General Fingold suffered a fatal heart attack ten days before the primary. Gibbons, backed by thousands of dollars from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, is harping on the heavy state expenses in the last two years, and on the excessive state debt. The Republicans, however, are neglecting one point: most of the debt was incurred in the last two GOP administrations...