Word: specter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once justified, even partial expansion offers complex problems of implementations. By simply expanding at a rate slower than the increase in eligible students, the admissions policy could become increasingly selective. But even this aspect of admissions is immediately complicated by the specter of Multiple Applications...
Irving McNeil Ives had no hankering after the headaches that go with the $50,000-a-year job of running New York State. He liked his Senate job in Washington, and the specter of a rough-and-tumble campaign this fall was not pleasant to contemplate. Mrs. Ives agreed. "All I want to do," she sighed, "is go home and raise petunias." But last week, after hours of maneuvering with Tom Dewey (see above), Irv Ives yielded to his strong sense of party loyalty and agreed to run. He has no brown derby, no winning ways, no fiery mannerisms. Although...
Those who went into academic life, such as M.I.T. history professor Lynwood S. Bryant, tended to remain pro-Roosevelt. He writes "The specter of creeping socialism does not keep me awake nights. I think we are doing all right in this country...
...also chairman of the senate insurance committee in the last legislature (which blocked reforms in Texas insurance laws), present the $436,000 appraisal to the insurance commission. Over a three-year period, Texas Mutual paid State Senator Moore $13,000. A state insurance examiner, said the court, performed "a specter of an audit" on Texas Mutual books but found nothing wrong, and the examiner later received $300 in cash from Paul Lowry. When Texas Mutual failed last year, it brought down three other Lowry insurance companies with it. Texas Mutual alone wrote 38,000 policies, and now it owes...
...remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World War I (nervous breakdown following brain fever); one of his fellow patients was a German soldier who had lost his leg, and carried about a piece of wood in his arm. Over the whole broods the specter of "Mother Europe," gorged with the blood of her dead...