Word: setup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open the last stronghold of anti-feminism, the freshman courses. Today, all but six courses in the college are jointly open to Harvard and Radcliffe students. This has not been according to plan, because back in 1948, Dean Bender said, "Perhaps in a couple of years, when the whole setup is shaken down a bit, we can re-examine class lists and separate a few of the largest courses again. It might be advisable in a few cases...
Clay persuaded Lawrence Wilkinson, 45, onetime banker who served in the Ordnance Department during the war, to resign a postwar banking job for the $17,500 post of defense director. Their staff consisted of 55 full-time employees, four of them volunteers. The key men in their setup were the state's own department heads in Albany, e.g., the Commissioners of Housing, Health, the Director of Safety, the Superintendent of Public Works...
...student speakers, managers of three major and three minor sports, will explain the College managerial setup and will point out the advantages to be derived thereof. Football movies, narrated by freshman football coach Henry Lamar, will be shown, and refreshments will be served...
While the new exchange setup undoubtedly brought the peso's official value closer to its real worth (on the Montevideo free market it is traded at from 16½ to 17½ to the dollar), there was serious doubt in many businessmen's minds whether The Boys could achieve their overall aims. For one thing, critics pointed out, the painful rise in prices would bring on a new wave of wage increases, and accelerate Argentina's dizzying inflation. As for The Boys' hope of attracting new capital into the country, one economist summed up: "The trouble...
...Kanin's Leo Mack (nicely played by Scott McKay) kicks up a fair amount of routine commotion, but he is miles behind any of a dozen Ring Lardner heels. In fact the whole setup, only substituting sex for ice hockey, recalls Dan Baxter and the brothers Rover. Sex-with almost willful bad taste-is worked for any laugh it can raise, at any level...