Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable thing that you have done in publishing some of the rare, fine Byzantine iconography in your April 13 issue, together with your story on the expedition to the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine. No detraction of appreciation is intended of your fine color plates by pointing out that your descriptions were purely secular...
...newspapers generally agreed that in view of Morse's attacks, Clare Boothe Luce had done the best thing for her country. "In offering her resignation," said the New York Times, "Mrs. Luce has shown a greater degree of good judgment and personal responsibility than was displayed by her chief antagonist in this controversy. The tactics pursued by Senator Morse of Oregon in this whole affair seem to us to have been beneath contempt...
Benjamin should have a relatively easy time in the two-mile, but the important thing here may be what teammate Jed Fitzgerald can do. Only the 880 looks totally bleak for the varsity, as the Bulldog trio of Carroll, Ed Slowik, and Ned Roache seem unbeatable...
...certainly some sort of merger of Radcliffe College into the structure of Harvard University would be a good thing. Administrative burdens should be combined together when possible, and the Radcliffe-Harvard axis is just right for such a combination which in any case, at this late date, must be regarded as inevitable; and when it comes it'll serve Harvard right...
Using Harvard as a basis for comparison, class discussion is much freer at Wellesley; there is less fear of saying the wrong thing. Wellesley's faults carry along with them merits; and although the instructor confesses that he consciously pitches the level of the discussion a little lower than he would prefer, he has the satisfaction of almost one hundred per cent participation...