Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Correspondent George H. Hall of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shot a question at the President: "Could you identify the group of persons in the White House or the Administration who give final clearance to nominations . . . before you send them to the Senate...
...every Yaleman's life, there has been one traumatic experience that other people do not have. It is Tap Day-the tense afternoon in May when members of the junior class gather to await the whack on the back that will send 90 of them to the six great Senior societies. William Howard Taft had sweated it out (he went Skull & Bones); so had his son Robert (Bones), and Robert's political adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror...
...Encouraged by the first year's results with isoniazid (especially when given along with streptomycin or PAS), New York City officials announced an ambitious program to bring every known tuberculosis case under treatment. Outpatient care will help those waiting for hospital beds and will make it possible to send patients home sooner but keep them under treatment; it will also be good for many of the balky ones who refuse hospitalization...
...student community. This timidity has been well-reflected in the refusal of the Student Council to assume the leadership in uniting student organizations for possible common action in the event of flagrant unfairness by the Jenner Committee. At its Monday meeting the Council overwhelmingly refused even to send a representative to the organizational meeting of the CUSC. The overzealous direction this meeting subsequently took in no way excuses the original inaction. If the Council will not take the lead in the sphere of Academic Freedom, it is only natural to expect less temperate and less representative students to speak...
Most lavish is the Greenbrier Clinic, set up in a wing of the Greenbrier Hotel in 1948 by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Now, 45 big companies send their executives to the Greenbrier periodically for a leisurely, three-day checkup on the company (cost: $100, plus hotel-room charges). Executives may take their wives (many clients foot the hotel bill for wives too) and play golf or swim between medical examinations. Said the wife of one recent visitor: "The only time in years I have spent so long with my husband at one time was when he was at the Greenbrier...