Word: containment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether Stalin can contain Titoism within its present manageable proportions, or whether it will widen into an irreparable schism, is a question for the best Russian brains. But Titoism has already achieved one thing-it has exploded the theory that communism, if it came to power, could bring the world unity and peace. For that, at least, loudmouthed Dictator Tito deserved the West's gratitude. As one American observer in Europe put it last week: "The time is surely come when the West should stop thinking of communism as a block which might splinter but can never crack...
...biology laboratories of this institution contain some 33,000 well preserved animal specimens, the average weight of a specimen being 8.26 ounces. Using present meat portions in the Dining Halls as the basis for my calculations, I find that there is enough meat in the laboratories for 152,800,000 meals, or a sixty-six year supply. Even after doubling the portions, which would be only humane, there still remains enough meat for a thirty-three year supply. Using this preserved meat is the essence of husbandry. The jars, now freed of their contents, could be melted down and utilized...
Moors Hall and the off-Quad houses will select their presidents at the start of the 1949-1950 school year, since they will contain entirely new groups of residents...
...great proportion of the rooms at Winthrop contain dumb-bells, and plaster casts of the discus-thrower outnumber other sculpture three to one. This is because Winthrop members are traditionally athletic, and show no sign of relaxing their interest in intramural and all-College sports. There are even some intra-House sports, such as water-fighting, which have been highly organized in the past...
...into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit, got up in a little white skirt like a powderpuff and with strips of gold-glittering tinsel ribboning her hair, seemed, set against the darkening all around, to contain this illuminated quality . . . She stood that way for a good long while, and Aunt El said it was right smart...