Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harold S. Ulen, who has coached Harvard swimming for two decades since its start, differs from prevailing sentiment in saying that we should develop a team and beat Yale...
...unpredictable course. The same Strong Man who publicly protested that Argentina must keep its "third position" had, in the past five years, told U.S. Ambassadors George Messersmith, James Bruce and Stanton Griffis that Argentina would fight on the U.S. side in a third World War. He had repeated the sentiment last year to Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller. Afterwards, Miller had fought through a $125 million credit for Perón in Washington, insisting that no strings be attached. Last week Miller was back from another visit to Buenos Aires, smarting from a brushoff that was insulting not only...
...Britain. Ordinarily he avoids political predictions, sticks to interpreting what has happened, and, in doing so, usually leans toward the Administration line. But his shrewd wit can often knock an overblown issue down to its true perspective. When other correspondents wrote of a 'Rising tide" of anti-British sentiment in 1949, Cooke observed: "Senator Kem of Missouri . . . has never constituted a rising tide...
...chance of passage? Said Ways & Means Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton last week: "Sentiment is ... overwhelmingly against it." In 1932, recalled ancient (87) Representative Doughton, Ways & Means had reported out a sales tax bill which was defeated.* In depression 1932, it should have been; then all efforts were to stimulate spending, not to cut it. But now times are different. Some Congressmen who now oppose a sales tax may quickly change their position if the budget hits $80 billion. Then, a sales tax will probably be the only way to balance the budget...
Souvaine, apparently more interested in sentiment than mathematics, shrugs aside the fact that Rodgers' first Broadway show (A Lonely Romeo) was produced 32 years ago; his first hit (Garrick Gaieties), 26 years...