Word: hope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the campaign directors have not disclosed their actual goal, they will canvass every house in the college with the hope of receiving $10 from every student...
...were under way from Singapore to Hong Kong. They would give the colony its mightiest array of sea power since war's end. The British are resigned to the fact that Hong Kong, if they hold on to it, will be a British fortress for years-they only hope that it can be a trading post at the same time. So far, the Chinese Communists have respected British power-and Hong Kong's usefulness to them as a source of supplies from the outside world. But in his mansion up on "The Peak," overlooking the colony, Sir Alexander...
...well at present, it will offend the manufacturers of black & white sets and their dealers, who are prospering on the status quo, and who fear that any promise of color will make the public stop buying. It will offend many TV station owners, most of whom, now living on hope and money transfusions, dread the greater cost of color telecasting. It will also offend Radio Corporation of America, No. 1 operator in the industry, which manufactures black & white sets, is a leading telecaster in black & white, and has a still-experimental color system of its own. A decision favoring...
Every year, some 10,000 ailing babies are born in the U.S. to parents with hostile blood types caused by the mysterious Rh factor.† Even with the most modern treatment, the best that doctors could hope for in such cases was to hold the death rate down to 20%. Last week, after listening to a pessimistic summary of these facts, doctors at the American Academy of Pediatrics convention in San Francisco heard some unexpected good news. Dr. Louis K. Diamond of Boston Children's Hospital rose from the audience and said quietly: "I would be remiss...
...plan to investigate the effect of a Harvard education on the "whole man" interested me greatly. This investigation, as you observed, will probably be a worthwhile undertaking. Perhaps it will materialize into an extension of the admirable effort which the General Education Committee's report began. But I hope I am not being unduly skeptical if I suggest that the nature of the inquiry will limit the findings to a very broad outline, and that this outline is already visible. It is really not necessary to launch an elaborate four-year study to answer the question which the Council...