Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professors devote a goodly proportion of their time to professional work outside the field of teaching. Because of the effort required to teach a curriculum composed entirely of seminars, teachers find themselves hard-pressed. "To teach at Bard, one must be either a terrific idealist or a fanatic," mused Ruth Gillard, acting Dean and professor of Sociology. Yet, in spite of the difficulties in maintaining an adequate faculty, Bard offers a rather effective type of education...
...Zither (Ruth Welcome; Cook). Zitherist Welcome captures some of the faded charm of Old Vienna (even in Greensleeves and September Song) and the recording captures some of the sweetest sounds on disks...
When the colonel and Meyer were in agreement, the Trib board was called together to discuss Meyer's bid. There was a dissenting voice: Ruth ("Bazy") Miller Tankersley, the colonel's niece, who was forced out as editor of the TimesHerald three years ago because the colonel disapproved of the way she was running the paper as well as of her divorce and her interest in a T-H editor, whom she later married. Bazy Tankersley, shocked to hear that the paper was to be sold, asked time to try to raise money to buy the Times-Herald...
...I.U.E. He argued privately with Jandreau, pointing out that his local was losing strength, while publicly branding Jandreau as the kind of "Communist union agent who constitutes the underlying threat" to U.S. security. Fellow U.E. members gossiped that there was another source of pressure on Jandreau. His wife Ruth, a onetime Communist Party leader in New York, has reportedly broken with the party and is planning to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church...
...Army's Arms. McCarthy's week opened in Manhattan's Federal Courthouse when New York City Policewoman Ruth Eagle appeared as a witness before McCarthy, an unruffled chairman despite a traffic accident the night before.* Policewoman Eagle, who was assigned to join the Communist Party and was shot at when Communists discovered her police connection, testified that she had known Dr. Irving Peress and his wife as "full-fledged members" of the Communist Party, had sat with them in party cell meetings. Then Dentist Peress took the witness stand and refused, on the ground of selfincrimination...