Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christianity and start practicing it." Since then, settlement work and student services have dislodged prayer meetings and Bible classes from the core of the Brooks House program. Although religious groups get meeting rooms and grants of money from PBH, they are independent and secondary in the entire Brooks House scheme. In hammering the social Gospel ideas of Bishop Phillips Brooks into a kind of social service program every religion preaches, PBH has succeeded in stripping itself of denominational character...
...trying to prove to the world that it is true. Instead, we seem to acquiesce to the stale view that the ideal of a good education is only attainable by means of more and more outlay. We decide, for example, that athletes have their place in a perfect educational scheme, so we include a further subsidy to that department in a tuition rise that is serious enough in itself. Could we perhaps get along with fewer coaches, with a less elaborate program, and in this way make it easier for students to get a Harvard education? Similarly, is maid-service...
Where Fronts Meet. Last week, at No. 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, the Huggins scheme was-earnestly debated. There were good arguments for federation: copper-rich Northern Rhodesia needs Southern Rhodesia's coal; both need Negro labor from overcrowded Nyasaland. Even more compelling in Sir Godfrey's eyes is the fact that Britain's East African empire is in danger of being submerged. "A Black Front," he says, "is advancing from [the Gold Coast]; a White Front [Boer South Africa] is moving from the south." Without federation, he told the conference, "the Rhodesias will become the clashing...
...Administration moved in, a prime question was: Will the U.S. raise the price of gold? For months, speculators and wishful thinkers had been puffing up the possibility, and support from abroad gave the glittering scheme some weight...
...around the palace to the extent of finding a 137-ft. diesel yacht for Monaco's boss. "People said I gave him a yacht," said Onassis. "Poof! He paid for it, 51 million francs, about $125,000." In any case, the Prince decided to drop his money-raising scheme. Instead, he approved Onassis' plan to buy control of the Sea Bathing Society from its 31,000 stockholders. When the directors returned from their money chase to tell the Prince that four of the biggest banks in France had agreed to put up the money, they found that...