Word: stronghold
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...seem to have sunk quite low. Since 1930, while college enrollment has increased by over 1,000, the number of humanities concentrators has dropped from 1,200 to less than 900. Coupled with the present drop in applicants to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the traditional stronghold of the humanities, these figures seem alarming. The stories of business personnel offices which are unusually unreceptive to applications from humanities majors, and recent statements from President Pusey and other educators, make the problem seem of vast proportions indeed...
...Tachens, the Nanchis, the Matsus and the Quemoys {see map). The Tachens are the hardest to defend, since they are almost out of combat range for Nationalist planes from Taipei. Conversely, they are much too far from Formosa to be steppingstones for a Red approach to the Nationalist stronghold: their principal value is as an early radar warning post for air attacks from the North. The Pentagon considers the Tachens "valuable but not vital." They have one small airfield which cannot now be used because of artillery from Yikiang; there is a second-rate radar station. Believing the Tachens...
...Strike of 1926. Government department heads designated key workers who would have to sleep on the job, and beds were installed in old wartime air-raid shelters. Department chiefs were to be housed in a massive concrete annex to the Admiralty built to be the government's last stronghold in case of a Nazi invasion. Car pools were organized (the London Underground would also stop...
Visiting at Columbia University's Teachers College, stronghold of the educational tenet that corporal punishment leaves enduring bruises on a child's emotions, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein spoke up in favor of using the rod. Admittedly no great shakes as a scholar,*Monty, who got an honorary doctor of laws degree from Columbia's President Grayson Kirk, gave a lecture on "Education for Leadership." Said he: "I'm for beating the bad boys-not the girls ... A boy cannot be expected to imagine . . . the misery and pain he has the power...
This could have serious consequences for the liberal wing of the Republican Party on the national level. New York State is not quite the impregnable stronghold of liberal Republicanism that one might gather from the editorial pages of the Chicago Tribune. One of the lesser-known facts about the 1952. Republican convention is that there was considerable Taft sentiment in the New York delegation. It has been estimated that as many as fifty delegates were personally favorable to Taft. But when Dewey cracked the whip, the elephant performed as a good elephant should and gave almost 100 votes to Eisenhower...