Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard charities appeal and students should have the opportunity to advocate that legitimate charities of special interest be included. The new Student Council organization provides channels for this sort of request through the House representatives. Until either the new Council or the present system proves incompetent there are sound reasons for retaining them...
Schlesinger regretted that individuals like FDR have disappeared from government, noting that "all public statements today sound alike." During the early days of the New Deal, there were real personalities, men who "made a difference in history," even if they did not literally alter the course of events, he added...
Respectful Greeting. An hour or so before Moscow's first announcement, the U.S. got its first notion of the Russian rocket from a monitoring station in Hawaii. There technicians suddenly tensed as receivers detected an unearthly new sound of the century: signals from an unidentified vehicle out in space...
...time he is interested in more momentous matters. Officially, he will be visiting the U.S. as the guest of Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, but the guessing in Washington is that Khrushchev sent his right-hand man to talk to President Eisenhower and top U.S. officials, to sound out the firmness of the U.S.'s determination to stay on in Berlin. Mikoyan may try to arrange a U.S.-U.S.S.R. Big Two parley (the U.S. has insisted that Britain and France must take part in any summit conference), possibly a Khrushchev visit to the U.S. Besides spending four...
...earner is nibbled and the time he begins to get his payments? Yes, reported a Congress-created advisory council on social security financing, a panel of 13 businessmen, labor leaders, university professors and insurance actuaries. Their summary: the financing of the Old Age and Survivors' Insurance system is "sound, practical and appropriate...