Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When asked the possibility of the Board's refusing new licenses, the distributor of the machines, Sidney Walbash said, "I don't think they will. I hope they...
...heads of the California and New York delegations have very definite vice-Presidential nomination hopes. In addition to being a favorite son Presidential candidate, California's Governor Edmond Brown has chances at the second spot on the ticket. Although he may privately think the junior Senator from Massachusetts is the best man, Brown cannot support Kennedy without cutting his own political throat as far as 1960 is concerned...
Terence Hawkes, of University College in Cardiff, England, leveled the charge in a letter to the Guardian's editors. "I think it is still true to say that Harvard and many other 'Ivy League' colleges select their students on the fundamentally undemocratic and manifestly illegal basis of 'quota.'" Hawkes wrote. "Only a certain number of Jewish and Negro student are admitted each year, regardless of academic prowess...
Since no undergraduate department would take him up on the idea of general examinations. Lowell turned to the graduate schools. The Medical School was the first to think favorably of his plan and accordingly, in 1911, the graduating class there took the first compulsory generals in University history. The next year the Divinity School followed suit, and two years later, convinced by enthusiastic reports from the two graduate schools, the undergraduate department of History, Government, and Economics began to require generals. Within ten years, President Lowell was able to report with evident satisfaction that all departments except Chemistry and Engineering...
North by Northwest. A wild, completely entertaining Hitchcock yarn in which enemy spies have the gall to think they can rub out Gary Grant...