Word: staked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lewis B. Oliver, Jr. '61, the third presidential candidate, said that he "wanted the constitution followed" and that the Council's prestige was at stake if it violated these constitutional provisions. He also obtained a petition signed by 15 members of the present Council favoring a reading period election...
...biggest stake in harnessing the atom for commercial use, simply because it is the biggest U.S. electrical firm and the world's biggest supplier of power equipment, concerned with power for everything from toasters to jet engines. Its stake has been defined in terms that every schoolboy can understand by G.E.'s chairman Ralph Jarron Cordiner, 58, a short (5 ft. 7½ in.), power-packed man with restless eyes that are always trained on the future, ever watchful for risk and opportunity. Says Cordiner: "The atom is the power of the future-and power is the business...
Bean Cake. After the war the Suzukis spent a year on a Colorado sugar-beet farm, renting their own land to help make a stake. Then they went home to Cressy. For Pat, it was as bad as ever. "I was kind of a homely kid. I was never a school type-I wasn...
Another important factor at stake in such a system is the effect it will have on prospective applicants to the College. Should a uniform rate be instituted, the admissions officers will no longer be able to explain that there are rooms available to students of limited means at $120 a term. There will just be the inflexible fact that rooms will cost approximately $500 a year for every one. This will provide yet another deterrent to the prospective applicants who are already frightened away from Harvard by the steadily increasing cost of spending four years as a student here...
...Greeks, Cyprus is wholly a question of ideals. They are aware that the living standards on the island will almost certainly fall if Britain pulls out; but this practical consideration is unimportant, they feel, when set alongside the "principles" at stake. Greeks are puzzled and hurt that Americans do not always see it the same way; and the extent to which they conceive of America as standing for principle is almost frightening. Their image of the U.S. is really a nineteenth-century one--we are still, above all, a country dedicated to "the ideals of '76," still the land...