Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insure this, the College should require wherever possible three years of secondary instruction in a modern language for all applicants. It could then send entering Freshmen directly into a language-culture course, for which he has already been groomed. In this course, he could use the language to study the literature, history and mores of the foreign country...
...Send For. Ever since 1941, important Republicans have been sending for Herbert Brownell when they had a big job to do. That year, Tom Dewey got him to manage Edgar Nathan's successful campaign for president of the Borough of Manhattan. In 1942, he managed Dewey's winning campaign for governor, and then turned down a job in the state cabinet because he wanted to go on practicing law. Says he: "For me, politics was winning elections, not getting political jobs...
...Egyptian cotton deliveries to Chinese Communist ports doubled in the past year; Pakistan's jumped from $45 million in 1951 to $54 million in the first six months of 1952. Most alarming of all, Ceylon, a member of the British Commonwealth, recently signed a five-year agreement to send 250,000 tons of rubber to the Red mainland. The U.S. had offered to buy the rubber at prevailing world prices, but the Ceylonese demanded an extra $50 million U.S. aid (in addition to the purchase price) as a condition of the sale. Washington demurred, and Peking closed the deal...
...people of the Achewa, Tonga and Angoni tribes of British-protected Nyasaland are poor fieldworkers with neither money nor power. Yet, mite by mite, they collected $5,000 to send five of their chiefs to London with a message for the "great white mother," Queen Elizabeth. The message was a protest against the British government's plan to federate Nyasaland with Northern and Southern Rhodesia into a Central African dominion (TIME, Feb. 9). "We are afraid Southern Rhodesia will swallow us down," said their spokesman, Chief Somba...
During these attentions, which took two years, Howgrave-Graham watched for royal specimens to send to appropriate laboratories. Samples of hair teased out of the plaster went to Scotland Yard, which certified all except one as human...