Word: containment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year the House, through an advisory committee which included ten D. C. citizens and officials, overhauled the District's tax structure with the object of making the District selfsupporting. Last week when the new D. C. tax bill appeared before the House, it was found to contain...
Comes to hand an item about Memorial Day which does not contain any unfortunate air-rifle connotations. In a drugstore not far from Harvard Square someone who evidently combined a penchant for window trimming with an unmistakable patriotic zeal arranged a display window with various medicines and flags. Squarely in the center of this nest of cough-and-cold remedies, salves, and tonics a soulful white cross had been arranged. And, at the intersection of the cross was inscribed...
...establishing the House Plan, President Lowell wanted the Houses to be "mirrors" of the College. They were to contain, among other things, an academic cross-section of both students and faculty. Within recent years, however, the tutorial staffs of the Houses have become increasingly overbalanced in one field or in a group of closely related fields. The result is that certain Houses are becoming identified with special fields of concentration--Winthrop and Sciences, Eliot and History, Dunster and Economics--and the much sought-after academic cross-section is rapidly disappearing...
...Sargent thisyear found his 1,190-page handbook too small to contain his views, decided to restrict his handbook to education and publish a separate 400-page volume of general comment-Human Affairs...
...this plea found in Clive Bell's book called "Art" is perhaps unconsciously embodied in the collection of New England Genre Paintings now on exhibit in Fogg Museum. Although these paintings presented by the Museum Class cannot be placed under the heading of great or profoundly significant art, they contain a warmth and a source of satisfaction which can only be attributed to the presence of sincere feeling and well-balanced simplicity...