Word: interestingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some officials see this trend as a healthy antidote to overemphasis on tests. Says Wellesley's Director of Admission Mary Evans Chase: "We're interested in character, too, you know. By the way a girl tells us about the things that interest her, and from what her teachers say about her, we may realize that she is a stunning human being. Someone has to be in the bottom half of the class, and often these are the girls...
When Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1953 created India's first state with linguistic boundaries, setting a precedent for the big boundary reshuffle of 1956, many Indians objected that language was not the only basis on which to establish a community of interest. They felt that Nehru risked encouraging a chain reaction of fragmentation, with different sections demanding statehood on any convenient pretext just when India most needed to find unity in its bewildering diversity...
Birmingham whites and blacks share a community of fear . . . Every channel of communication, every medium of mutual interest, every reasoned approach, every inch of middle ground has been fragmented by the emotional dynamite of racism, reinforced by the whip, the razor, the gun, the bomb, the torch, the club, the knife, the mob . . . Telephones are tapped . . . Mail is intercepted and opened . . . The eavesdropper, the spy and the informer have become a fact of life...
...financing. Many of the hotels in trouble were built by speculators during the heady postwar period, and were so profitable for a time that they were easily sold for high prices. To get a mortgage on such overvalued properties, some new owners had to pay up to 25% in interest and fees on five-year mortgages. Saddled by such costs, one set of owners after another has gone broke in the midst of splendor. As each new owner takes out another mortgage, some hotels have been burdened with half a dozen or more mortgages worth more than the actual value...
Ford, which under Henry II's grandfather spent a lot of time and money trying to foist Ford's singular economic and political views on employees and the general public, has become a leader among U.S. industries in its nonpartisan efforts to stir more interest in politics. Its Civic and Governmental Affairs Office, set up in 1950, was one of the first of a series of political-education programs established by such firms as General Electric, American Can Co., Aerojet-General and Gulf Oil. The company not only urges its workers and executives to run for public office...