Word: schemings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moving paper ribbon, a one-way mirror, and hidden microphone figure in a new Social Relations scheme for finding out how people get along with each other...
Originally, the Key was modeled closely on the pattern of the Dartmouth and Princeton Key Societies which include many of the features of a social club. The Student Council objected strongly to the scheme, and after much debate, turned out a compromise constitution...
...will be expensive, yes. But the efforts of the Faculty to promote the new GE program seem likely to produce far more than half success. The Faculty is approaching the questions of personnel and incentives with an enlightenment that would warm the Special Committee's heart. The scheme of split-appointments for GE teachers means that they will be able to devote much time and energy to the new courses; and in general GE instructors are especially skilled in the art of teaching, as distinct from the art of research. In addition, small sections, stimulating term papers, and more constructive...
Soviet Union kicked her out as a spy, was still suffering frustration: the eleven U.S. Communists on trial in Manhattan, flatly rejecting her offer of $1,000 for their defense, called it "a shabby promotion scheme...
...Revival of Righteousness." Birddog lobbyists of the American Legion, controlled by World War I veterans who would profit soonest from the scheme, squatted watchfully in the galleries. Thus faced with going on the record, a group of frightened Congressmen did what John...