Word: threshing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before he ever became a college president, Dwight D. Eisenhower made up his mind about one thing the U.S. needed: a system for getting the best of the nation's brains-scholars and men of affairs-regularly around a conference table to thresh their way to agreement on the nation's most pressing public questions. Last week Eisenhower announced that he was ready to begin. He called his project "The American Assembly." He also called it "the most important step I have taken as president of Columbia University...
...envoys to ten South American countries met in Rio de Janeiro last week to thresh out regional problems and talk policy. Sparkplug of the meeting was brisk, affable Edward G. Miller, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Also present, as observer and counselor: the State Department's planner in chief, scholarly George F. Kennan...