Word: reference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influence of the Student Employment Office provides a major direction for HSA. Under terms of the corporation charter, the Employment Office can refer needy students to various HSA members for jobs. The goal of the Employment Office, according to Burke, is to enable any needy student to earn $300-$450 during the school year. Thus, the HSA has become just another outlet for jobs, along with the dorms crews, kitchens, or libraries. "We try to fit the student to the job," Burke comments, "and the existence of the HSA provides additional flexibility in employment opportunities...
...agree with him. Far from it. Through interpreters, Stevenson briskly defended Administration foreign policies, riled Khrushchev by bringing up the brutal Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956. Khrushchev urged Stevenson to talk to Hungarian government officials and hear the true story for himself. Stevenson retorted: "The Hungarian government I refer to no longer exists...
...clues, in the form of rhymed couplets ("Morning, noon and night, you'll find me tight") may help the player guess the identity of an object silhouetted behind a scrim curtain (in this case, an electric light socket). Other times, the clues, and an accompanying cartoon, may refer to persons or sayings. The program is somewhat complicated by such intramural banking as selling one's clues in midshow for a $1,000 consolation prize. The prizes are all highly consoling, from Bergdorf Goodman minks to tickets to the London production of My Fair Lady, not so much...
...conference, the President, asked whether the U.S. ought to get a Cabinet-level department of science, said he thought not, but that "one of my appointments today is with the advisory committee under Dr. Killian, and if I thought there was any need for [such a department], I should refer it to him at once for a study, a complete study...
...inspiration can be guessed at. The ogre seems borrowed from the Mouth of Hell leading to Pluto's cave, as illustrated in medieval manuscripts on Ovid. The curious words ringing the ogre's mouth-Lasciate Ogni Pensiero Voi Que Entrate (Abandon all thought, ye who enter)-refer to the cup of forgetfulness ancient Greeks thought was drunk before crossing the river Lethe. The dragon-fighting lions (probably an oblique reference to political feuds) derived from a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. The elephant with castle was a symbol used to depict Eleazar's slaying of the beast...