Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacLeish replied that even if a combined Faculty-student committee should be set up to approve productions in the new theatre, there was no reason why the HDC could not submit briefs of plays which it wished to produce. "The HDC might serve as a valuable agency in first screening suggestions," MacLeish said...
After kicking off, the Yardlings forced the Bruins back 32 yards in three plays, and Brown had to punt. Armstrong ran the ball back to the home team's 35-yard line and set up another Yardling touchdown. Three plays later, Fred Taylor scored on a three-yard drive. After Barth failed to convert, the score stood...
...totalitarian state, wrote Bishop Dibelius, has no claim to the Biblical status of "the powers that be." In a totalitarian system "there is no right in the Christian sense of the word . . . Paul's words are set aside." Encountering a speed-limit sign along a highway in the free world, wrote Dibelius, he would not hesitate to slow down. But not in East Germany. First, because the speed limit would not be applied equally to ordinary citizens and Communist functionaries and because the slowdown would be made necessary, in all likelihood, by some immoral purpose, such as starving...
Bishop Dibelius said nothing. He had succeeded in what he had set out to do: remind Germans of their precious right to say no to authority...
...shares-even though the companies have no established value-to working out a novel method of financing freight cars or oil tankers. After being turned down by several banks, a group of utilities that wanted to finance an atomic reactor turned to Morgan; in a few days, the bank set up the plan to do the job. When General Electric asked Morgan Guaranty to buy up the shares of an affiliate abroad, the bank doggedly pursued one widow from city to city all over Europe until she finally sold her shares...