Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lilienthal's term would expire Aug. 1. The President was determined to nominate him for a full five years.* Republicans were unwilling to see such an important appointment carry over through an administration which they expected to control. Lilienthal himself would accept a one-year term. But Harry Truman refused to listen to any compromise. The nominations went up to Capitol Hill...
...latest count, there were no less than 15 active groups, some devoted to lectures and discussions, some permanent action committees, and the rest made up of a bevy of temporary candidate-backers. By the end of the term there may well be more, and though the National Conventions in June will bring some of these activities to a sudden end, the political renaissance of the College as a whole shows no signs of petering...
...undergraduates, with the exception of June 1948 degree candidates, are reminded that preliminary fall term study cards and plans of study are due by 5 o'clock today at University Hall...
...that the Summer School here has been extended to eight weeks and offers the same credits as those of a normal term," Adams said, "these colleges have responded favorably to our invitation to send their students to Harvard." He added that presidents of these colleges will be consulted in the planning of later summer sessions...
...home is in Oxford, but in term she lives at Girton College, Cambridge. Her day begins when a gyp (servant) brings a cup of tea at 6 a.m. Three times a week Dr. Cam cycles to a lecture hall, her steel-grey hair and black academic gown billowing in the breeze. She has been to the U.S. only once, to teach at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr, and that was 39 years ago. Most of her days are spent in tutoring, writing, helping edit the Cambridge Historical Journal, keeping the university archives, and campaigning energetically for the Labor Party. Social...