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...question. Most researchers settled for honesty, a sense of humor, patience, fortitude, a knowledge of his field, and respect for his researcher. Said one: "If he just has a sense of TIME - which implies writing ability, imagination, a sense of humor, etc., a researcher can kick in with the background and the wheels of journalism can really revolve...
Sanders Theatre is the scene of the performance, which will be complete with costumes and background music. The cast is under the direction of William A. West '49 and Miss Georgina Johnston, of the Yale School of Drama and assistant curator of the Theatre Collection at Widener Library...
...specific purpose within a single department, or within two related departments of the University. The greatest individual needs of any University, general salaries for the academic staff, maintenance funds for the physical plant, and new scholarship grants for the undergraduate body, were all relegated far to the background while research and new building were granted great subsidies. Less than one-fifth of the total amount is to be devoted to needs of units as large as the College or Medical School, less than one-fifth will go toward raising the level of salaries, maintenance and scholarships generally, while four-fifths...
...work and reap the credit for settling the steel, coal and railroad strikes the President called in professorial White House Adviser John Steelman, let his Labor Secretary languish in the background...
When a character begins to slow the plot, Author Jennings shoots him or gives him a fatal tumble from the to'gallants. Wandering around in the background-as though to remind the reader that life in those days was more than just tosspots and sea-chanteys-are Sammy Adams, Tommy Jefferson and old General Washington...