Word: assess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stanford professor of Religion stated that "in spite of the Church's dedication to its traditions, it has been forced to assess its own claims by attacks from so-called heretics...
CAPITALISM, often misinterpreted, often misunderstood, took on new dimensions in San Francisco last week. Recognizing the competitive challenge to free enterprise in a world clamoring for swift material progress, 551 bankers, government officials and business leaders from 62 nations gathered for the first such meeting to assess the vast needs and soaring hopes of the free world. The occasion: a week-long International Industrial Development Conference sponsored by TIME-LIFE International and Stanford Research Institute. The conference theme: Investment−Key to Industrial Development...
Russell took his accustomed seat at the head of the table, opened the discussion and did most of the talking. Softly in his Southern cadence he outlined dangers to the South in the new situation. No one was better qualified to assess it: in his 24 years in the Senate he had fought ten extended battles over race legislation, from the 30-day filibuster of the anti-lynching bill in 1935 to the nine-day filibuster over Harry Truman's Fair Employment Practices Act in 1950. Always the legislation had actually been withdrawn and the South...
Bibles & Attendance. Outside the Garden, the impact of the crusade is harder to assess. One index-Bible sales-is inconclusive; a few bookstores (Morehouse-Gorham, religious booksellers whom Graham recommends; Calvary Bookstore, near the Garden; and Doubleday) report a small increase, others none...
Less tangible and therefore more difficult to assess are the so-called "psychological" advantages of belonging to a women's college. Men, in particular, are quick to assume that for a girl "it is better to have an identification with a women's college," as John U. Munro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, has put it. Moreover, he, like many other Harvard alumni, admits to having "an entrenched instinct for Harvard as a men's college...