Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven Good Government Committee candidates running for office on Little Rock's city-manager-type Board of Directors tried hard to keep Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, and indeed the whole segregation issue, out of the election. They even went to Faubus and begged him not to interfere. But Orval Faubus, hoping for a vote he might claim as popular approval for his wild attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School, gave no promises. In fact, the word soon went out that his aides were on the telephone, whipping up support for the seven...
...application for a trucking license was reviewed at a public hearing. Representatives of the district's biggest trucking companies were on hand to state their views on the undesirability of admitting a competitor to their ranks. "This boy," said a representative of powerful Tyneside Removals Ltd., "is the type that might well work right around the clock. In five years he might replace us in the town." Warned a lawyer for Pickford's Ltd.: "While I hardly think he is a threat to Pickford's, one must remember that my firm was also started by an enterprising...
...deprecate the value of the classical languages as disciplines or their value for intensive analysis of the texts. It would be hoped that the lecturers and section men in such a course would have such a knowledge of the languages. A fairly inconclusive course of this type, rather than distorting the texts, would tend to quash some of the rabid and facile generalities beginning "The Greeks thought..." with which many Gen Ed courses abound...
Police chief John H. Smith described the beating as "the most horrible thing I can remember in all my years of police work. It must have taken a pretty brutal type to do such a thing, but I've always thought that those football players would get mighty vicious by the end of the season...
...advantages to training a Harvard man at Harvard for a Harvard professorship. Such a man will certainly know what the faculty, department, and students expect of him. This system will perpetuate the department's high standards, but it will also perpetuate some undesirable ones. To avoid a closed room type of intellectual atmosphere, a department could demand that its members spend at least a year teaching at other universities. At present, when a junior faculty members accepts an appointment at another university, he is rarely considered a few years later for a professorship--even if his record at Harvard...