Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both themes were also sounded by Dwight Eisenhower, who carefully ticked off the so-called hardheaded reasons for foreign aid, e.g., the setback to Communist imperialism, the increase in U.S. military security, the improved U.S. economic position through expanding trade with aided countries. Then the President tore into the foes of foreign aid who would dismiss it with the contemptuous phrase that it is a do-gooders' scheme...
Last week, despite a setback from a bout of pneumonia, George Congrave was able to feed himself with a special knife-and-fork combination that enabled him both to cut and pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...
Such a proposal, if accepted, would be a serious setback to the tutorial system and a sad commentary on the quality of Harvard teaching. Whatever success tutorial enjoys at present is due to the quality and relevance of the material studied and the knowledge and teaching skill of the tutor. Instituting graded tutorial would be an admission that the present supply of these assets is inadequate to produce the interest needed for a good tutorial session. Grades would indeed create a certain type of interest. But better instruction and teaching would create another, more desirable sort of interest. If departments...
...Eliot House soccer team recovered from an opening game setback and then powered its way to the league title with 12 straight victories. The Elephants' winning skein included a string of ten consecutive shutouts...
...House football league ultimately proved a two team league, as Dunster and second place Kirkland far outdistanced the other six teams. The Deacons compiled a 6-1 record, suffering their only setback to Dunster. Winthrop and Adams, tied for third place with identical 3-3-1 records, were three full games behind Kirkland...