Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberal education was all right as far as it went, but Wright thought something more needed to be added. Said he: "the place of women in the present scheme of things is confused and unstable . . . We must constantly bear in mind, however, that the great majority of women who attend college will marry and have children, and that for most of them their home will be the focus of their lives." Neither women students nor their colleges could ignore the warnings "that the American home is not so satisfactory a place ... as it should...
...Directors had previously extended a blanket invitation to anyone with a Coop card. As each member entered the Harvard Hall gathering-room, he was presented with a red treasurer's report, a white monograph on the Society's history, and a blue manual of by-laws, a color scheme cleverly designed to prepare the audience for the patriotic fervor to follow...
...Fair Dealers seem consistent for their inconsistencies. A chimerical scheme has been cooked up by the Secretary of Agriculture whereby we all get food practically for nothing, yet farmers enjoy top prices, with taxpayers bridging...
...evening." Barkley, equally irritated, rumbled: "I have not done any such thing." Vermont's Aiken cried: "The Senate has now out Brannaned the Brannan plan." He said that the 90% amendment would make the bill as expensive and control-ridden as Secretary of Agriculture Brannan's tricky scheme, which the Senate shies from...
...House drafted a bill allowing 90 percent fixed parity, which was rejected by the Senate in favor of the flexible scheme. During the 1948 campaign, President Truman promised the farmers to do everything possible to maintain a fixed parity based on some prior period of high farm prices. It is now the problem of the Administration to secure legislation which will make good these promises...