Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ceremony that was to take place on the lawn of the President's quarters at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station on Oahu. The presidential party ran for cover to the officers' club, and there in a 2½-minute ceremony, Dwight D. Eisenhower received his 46th* and quickest honorary degree, an LL.D. from President Laurence H. Snyder of the University of Hawaii. Read the citation: "His travels to the far corners of the earth as an emissary of peace have endeared the hearts, won the minds and rallied the loyalties of freedom-loving peoples to the cause...
...seems to me that the quickest and best solution to the problem facing us of overcrowding our colleges is to reduce drastically the number of females permitted to matriculate. Let's face it, 99% of the girls entering college are in search of only one degree...
Well aware that France was about to explode an atomic bomb, the U.S. proposed a treaty that it believed could lead to quickest practical agreement and serve until East and West could arrive at 100% control. Specifically, the U.S. proposed to end "forthwith under assured controls" 1) all nuclear weapons tests in the earth's atmosphere; 2) all tests in the oceans; 3) all nuclear tests in those regions of space where effective controls are currently possible; and 4) all controllable nuclear weapons tests beneath the surface of the earth. To get around disagreements on how to measure underground...