Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Members agreed that studying in order to keep out of the army would make men feel insecure, and prevent them from going out for honors, and joining extracurricular activities. "It would," they said, "also induce a greater number of students to apply to colleges with low scholastic standards...
General consensus feels that the '49-'50 upward trend will resume. Many institutions expected to reach their peak year by 1954 under normal trends, but are now worrying about how to keep their heads above water. Some 500 small colleges are in serious danger unless they got financial aid soon. They fear that to survive under present conditions would involve lowering their standards far below the one on which they are willing to operate...
Morgan bends every effort to keep the televiewer's hand away from the knob. Inheriting a large audience from the Berle show, which precedes his own, Morgan tries to keep it by spelling out the plot quickly and in big, block letters. "We've even had to tack things up on the wall so people can see plainly what we're talking about from start to finish," he admits. Every scene moves the plot forward, with little time frittered away on character and atmosphere. "It's not that we're so damned much better than...
Judge Medina pounced on that. What was wrong, asked he, with the same firms getting the same business? Don't many people keep the same doctor for years because he is a good doctor...
...public utility securities at competitive bidding (TIME, March 25, 1940 et seq.) rather than at negotiated sale, Medina broke in sharply. What was wrong with that? he asked. What Stebbins was saying, said Medina, was that if you don't agree with the Government you ought "to keep your mouths shut ... It seems to me ... we are right on the brink of some form of totalitarianism...