Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treasurer of the school worked full-time during the summer of 1957. Their conclusion, that Exeter should not go on a full-year schedule, was supported by a rebuttal of some of the favorite arguments of supporters of the four-quarter proposal. Their report is, however, an extraordinarily persuasive statement of the appeal of a full-year program if applied somewhere more suited to it than Exeter...
Although an air of the modern surrounds its activities, the Flying Club's history traces back to 1911, when an intrepid group of undergraduates--truly "pioneers"--formed the Harvard Aviation Foundation. Only eight years after Kitty Hawk, their statement of purpose outlined a bold program in the infant field...
...statement before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Aged, meeting in Boston, Harris criticized the present policy of the Administration toward old age benefits. The main question in dispute is whether Old Age and Survivors' Insurance should be exclusively financed on a pay-as-you-go basis or through an accumulation of large reserves...
Suspect. For 20 hours, New York and Boston police grilled Radio Officer Van Rie. He admitted-later repudiating his statement-that he had gone to Lynn's cabin at 7 p.m. She was crying. Van Rie is reported to have said jokingly: "What's the matter? Are you pregnant?" Then, "She got excited and came at me." Police said Van Rie admitted, then denied, that "I beat her unmercifully. I beat her with my left. I beat her with my right. She fell to the floor. I picked her up and shook her. I threw her into...
...Marilyn Monroe: "Just a slob really: an untidy divinity-in the sense that a banana split or a cherry jubilee is untidy but divine"). But Avedon's pictures have the poignancy, and sometimes the pettiness, of inspired gossip. He is at home in a theatrical world where statement is overstatement, appearance is reality, personality is character...