Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This kind of attitude seems very much in line with the Administration's general thinking about the role of athletics in a University. "Athletics for all" is a favorite Harvard slogan. The intramural program goes far toward making this phrase real; but intercollegiate contests present another--and at least as valuable--kind of athletic experience. The University should do all in its power to make this experience available to as wide a range of people as possible...
...throat. Even regarded as a symbol of gentility, the compulsory necktie is an unwarranted imposition on those of us who are conscientiously ungenteel. Perhaps Harvard will some day experience among its students a revival of the zeal that characterized its founders. On that day we might remember the slogan promulgated by one of the Tom Paines of Jenkins Township-Yatesville Borough Joint: "We won't wear ties...
...Right-to-work is a cleverly conceived slogan created by some huckster on Madison Avenue," Kenneth Kelley, Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts A.F. of L. said last night in an address to the Harvard Eisenhower Young Republican Club...
...change in attitude is perhaps best seen in The Netherlands. When the first groups of German tourists arrived in 1952, old resistance men painted walls and fron tierbarriers with the slogan: Deutsche nicht Erwünscht! (Germans not wanted), a variation of the Jews-not-wanted signs in Nazi days. This week the Dutch Tourist Bureau was complaining that it needs more money to make more propaganda to attract more Germans...
...traditionally unsophisticated Brooklyn, Federated's Abraham & Straus often plugs its goods in sophisticated ads with its slogan ("Do not say you cannot find it until you have shopped at A & S!") spelled out in Latin, Greek, French or Icelandic. It lives up to its slogan by providing such items as lefthanded scissors, cutters for soft-boiled eggs, holders for used tea bags, concave head brushes for bald men (with nylon bristles). While every other major Brooklyn department store has closed or sold out in the past ten years, A & S has grown more prosperous than ever, now boasts...