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Word: certainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestants, I am sure, agree with birth control, just as I am equally certain they do not side with the continuing and increasingly more personal inquisition of Senator Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...like to have a disproportionate voice in the party. I think you know who they are." He made it clear, in a passing swipe, that he was sore at the once-devoted New York Post, which had recently taken some potshots at him. But beyond that, nobody was quite certain whom he had in mind; he could have meant Stevenson, whose passive third-time availability galls him, or he could even have meant Eleanor Roosevelt, who is part of a New York reform group trying to upset Tammany Leader Carmine De Sapio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disenchanted Evening | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...University College in Cardiff, England, leveled the charge in a letter to the Guardian's editors. "I think it is still true to say that Harvard and many other 'Ivy League' colleges select their students on the fundamentally undemocratic and manifestly illegal basis of 'quota.'" Hawkes wrote. "Only a certain number of Jewish and Negro student are admitted each year, regardless of academic prowess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kilson Counters Charges Of Racial Discrimination | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

...input-output analysis, and are now training people to perform the necessary operations. Leontief, who visited his native Russia briefly last spring, believes that although they are "having a hard time justifying the use of an analytical tool developed by a capitalist," the Russians will resort to it soon. Certain revisions have to be made in U.S.S.R. statistical methods in order to facilitate use of the analysis, Leontief added...

Author: By Soma S. Golden, | Title: Loentief Relates Economic Theory to Fact | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

...advance... only by means of an unfettered search for truth on the part of those who devote their lives to seeking it...," he said "and by complete freedom in imparting... the truth that they have found. Either the University assumes full responsibility for permitting its professors to express certain opinions in public, or it assumes no responsibility whatsoever, and leaves them to be dealt with like other citizens by the public authorities." The University steered always by the latter course under President Lowell and consequently left its faculty free to say whatever they wished, provided they did so as independent...

Author: By Penelope C. Kline, | Title: Lowell's Regime Introduced Concentration and House System | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

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