Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conditions: economic balance (poverty leads to despotism) and enlightenment. One flaw in Webster's abstract definitions: areas of despotism can exist in a democracy, and he doesn't say so. The film shows such areas of despotism within U.S. democracy as the Ku Klux Klan, a resort accepting only a "selected" (Christian) clientele...
Though Prexy T. L. P. O'Donnell '47 tried every secret hand-shake and pass-word he knew, including "General Education," the sentinel was adamant. As a last resort, when the Council failed to turn up with a quorum, it was suggested that several society members be hastily appointed to the group, in exchange for use of the room. But they met on the third floor...
...business on a jerry-built, short-term basis. Governor Thomas E. Dewey summoned educators from the 85 New York universities and colleges. Said he: "Let's get them in this year even though you will have to sacrifice some of your standards." The educators agreed as "a last resort" to sponsor an emergency two-year college for 12,000 ex-G.I.s at Sampson Naval Base near Geneva. Six upstate colleges will help supply about 1,000 faculty members; the state will put up the cash ($3-to-$5 million). Proposed name: Dewey College...
...years later the team of Kaye & Eisen was still no farther than the borsch summer-resort circuit in the Catskills. Here, besides being straight entertainers, they were also what is known as "tumulers"-aides of the hotel manager who, on rainy days, were sent out to "make with the tumult" and, by distracting disgruntled guests, prevent them from checking out. Kaye & Eisen did their tumuling by chasing each other through the halls with meat cleavers, jumping into fish ponds...
Every beggar now has two or three 100-yen notes, once as rare in Japan as a $100 bill in the U.S. Half-yen notes are used as nose-wipers. A group of men spent 35,000 yen on a night's spree at the seaside resort of Atami, taking care to bring their own slaughtered cow for food. Five pounds of black-market rice would fetch 5,000 to 7,000 yen (official price...