Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norwegian fishermen were in port, in keeping with the Norwegian law which forbids fishing on Sundays, a fleet of some 60 Soviet boats followed a shoal of herring inside Norway's four-mile limit and let down their purse nets off Aalesund. A police cruiser sped out to chase the trespassers. When the Russian boat captains could not or would not understand, a shoal of small warships of the Norwegian navy steamed out. Two Russian boats tried to get away; a machine gun sputtered, and the boats hove to. Norwegians climbed aboard four small boats and a larger storage...
...days before Lamont, when the Widener reading room resembled an intellectual YMCA, Radcliffe students surrounded a young man named Phillip McNiff like a band of suffragettes to petition for equal rights. The protests accomplished nothing, McNiff continued to chase the intruders away, and Radcliffe bulletin boards meekly rescinded their initial judgement by announcing: "Mr. McNiff is not an ogre...
...letter to Chase Mellen '20, the fund's executive director, C. Harold Berry, Dean of the Medical School, said that the gift would be used to meet the school's "top priority, that is, making more secure our teachers in the basic medical sciences...
ECONOMISTS," Stuart Chase once remarked, "are almost invariably engaged in defeating the last slump." For long years, U.S. economists were, in fact, best known for their hindsight. But in recent years, business analysts have come out of the ivory tower and into the marketplace. Dozens of organizations, e.g., the Council for Economic Development, the Twentieth Century Fund, keep the public informed on business trends. In business and in government today, few decisions are made without an' economic "fix" from an expert...
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