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Word: surely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University Hall--gray grooved blocks across the Yard. It was so much more comfortable. The Deans love you, and they welcome you, tell you where to sit (check your Bursar's card to make sure you are one of them). It was peaceful and chatty and comfortable. But even here, on our side of the Yard, no one knew quite what to do. Like the fast--if there are no demands, there is no purpose; if there is no purpose, nothing happens. So nothing happened...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Knocking On the University's Door | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...lies the widening shadow cast by the Vietnam war. Because of the war's expense, Bryant says, the President probably "doesn't want to introduce new programs that have to be financed in novo." It is not clear just what the Commission's report will recommend, but it is sure to call for big increases in federal expenditures on libraries. And Johnson gave this kind of expenditure a distant second priority in his Education message to Congress, so the immediate prospects for pushing federal construction of massive new research centers look thoroughly bleak...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Library Wait | 2/29/1968 | See Source »

...miler. Either Baker or Shaw could hit the mark any day. Maybe they won't do it indoors, and maybe they won't do it at all this season. It would hardly be the end of things if they didn't. Says McCurdy: "They're two proud, competitive athletes. Sure they'd like to break four, but it's certainly not the most important thing in the world." It shouldn...

Author: By Mark R. Rasmuson, | Title: Milers Baker and Shaw Threaten To Surpass Four-Minute Barrier | 2/28/1968 | See Source »

...Vietnam war has already been criticized as a "black man's war" and twice as many Negroes as whites have died in combat. Realizing that criticism was sure to accompany a plan that would draft a greater proportion of Negroes, the President decided that retaining oldest first was the most politically sound move. Graduate students have already been attacked for their privileged deferred status, and he realized that drafting them was least likely to provoke widespread criticism outside the academic community. So far he has been right...

Author: By William M. Kutik, | Title: Draft Politics | 2/27/1968 | See Source »

...dont want to prophesy on what is going to happen in Vietnam or why. We feel reasonably sure of our strength. We will continue to fight until there is some better sign than these last weeks have provided of Hanoi's willingness to concede defeat...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Onward | 2/26/1968 | See Source »

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