Word: versus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mental process that supports such incompatible traits as cultivation and bigotry, supports them on a torrent of emotion, which education opposes-the process which fills vague but ancient war-cries with whatever content the moment's feelings and interests dictate. "Free Enterprise," for example, or "The People versus Special Interests" (often coupled with demands for high tariffs or more subsidy for a hitherto neglected special interest) are forever confusing the nation's deepest traditions and vitiating attempts at calm study. All the vocational training possible, all the calling to mind of obscure statistics, are by themselves worthless, for partisans...
...expedients have not been effective, for the schedule's core has necessarily remained a number of Ivy League colleges which, like Yale, talked much about deemphasis while doing the opposite, and the endowment has been meager. So long as this situation continues, Harvard's alternatives become buying teams versus dropping the sport altogether...
...Depth versus desperation seems to be the pre-game story of the lacrosse team's contest with Yale today...
Track coach Bill McCurdy gets worried when he feels too good. Although he attests to being "versus superstition," McCurdy does admit one ritual he performed faithfully in the days when high jumper Ty Smith was on the team. "Every time he jump, I'd turn away," confessed the track coach. But McCurdy maintains that he hasn't been coaching long enough to develop any real superstitions...
...Shift versus The Collapse at Dartmouth's Alumni Gymnasium tonight when the Green entertains the varsity basketball team. It may also be The Switch...