Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...those of us who have lived most of this period, but been too close to it to see the meaning of history in perspective, this is a keen and fair analysis of our world during the past 50 years that should be required reading for all who would appreciate these times in which we live...
John Frerette, who is on the FCC's Washington Committee investigating college stations, told the CRIMSON "that other college stations have been closed in the past because they failed to comply with the Commission's radiation regulations." Frerette refused to disclose the names of any of the other colleges involved...
...running the war badly, she rushed off to Washington to tell him so. Satisfied that Mr. Lincoln was really the man for the job, she directed her energies into good works for distressed Negro children. At 66, Spinster Liz started the nation's first public kindergarten. She was past 80 when she went to Washington to lobby for mistreated Indians, just short of 90 when she died, her mind busy with women's emancipation and machinery for world peace...
...with her indomitable drive and conscience, each new project seemed the one that would justify all past failures. No one could ever accuse her of being a fuddyduddy. In her old age she approved of the new electric streetcars and telephones and raised her firm Peabody voice for women's suffrage. Author Tharp's judgment seems fair enough: "A walking encyclopedia of worthy causes, and . . . something of a pest. . . But no one could accuse her of insincerity...
...past and in the foreseeable future," Cabot continued, "Harvard proposes to maintain its policy of not buying, owning or operating businesses on a tax-free basis, that have no relationship to the ordinary conduct of the University's academic affairs...