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...many tutoring schools might be just the thing to help him brush up on his courses. Prepared or not, the freshman was looking forward to these two weeks with a mixture of fear and anticipation. The ordeal came and went, and those who had pulled through breathed a sigh of relief. Their first term at Harvard was over...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Prohibition, Winning Football, Lowell Dispute Among Memories of 1926's First Three Terms | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...average Chemistry major or concentrator in Government breathes a sigh of relief when he hands in his last English A theme, secure in the knowledge that he has bested the English language forever. Mols or Marx may still lie in wait for him, he thinks, but indefinite clauses and parallel phrasing are things of the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Goes After Men Misusing English on Exams | 5/31/1951 | See Source »

Said U.N.B.'s President Albert W. Trueman with an exhausted sigh: "He's a human hurricane, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Hurricane Time | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...sigh is not enough: a new spirit has to permeate the whole. The representatives of Christianity can no doubt assist in preparing the way for this inner renewal. This, however, will not depend on what they can claim, but on what they can contribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unpleasant Christian | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...free world, there was also jubilation-and foreboding. A vast sigh of relief rose from Europe and Britain, where MacArthur had long been the symbol of an American urge to get entangled in Asia, plunge into World War III. London's House of Commons, apparently in full agreement with the British government's policy of appeasement of the Chinese Reds, cheered when Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison broke the news. Cried the News Chronicle: "Mr. Truman has taken the bull by the horns and pushed him out of the china shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Jubilation --& Foreboding | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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