Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rifle. Half the people of the Northwest Territories are Eskimos, and their tribal ways have been difficult to fit to Canada's 20th Century social legislation. Exhibit A is the baby bonus. On Feb. 28, no less than 3,101 Eskimo children were registered for family allowances made available on July 1, 1945. But administration is difficult. In the first place, an Eskimo child has only a temporary name until he is about ten years old. In addition, families are always on the move. The Mounties have tried to solve the problem by giving each child...
...jittery Paris fad; it is a description of any philosophy that takes as its starting point the elementary fact of human existence. The word, and the Catholic Church's wish to assist Thomism's prior claim to it, had brought 13th Century Existentialist Aquinas and 20th Century Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre together. The whole room rustled when white-maned Philosopher Jacques Maritain stood up to speak...
Married. Abram Garfield, 74, Cleveland architect, son of the 20th U.S. President; and Helen Matthews, 45; he for the second time, she for the first; in Shaker Heights, Ohio...
Carnival in Costa Rica (20th Century-Fox), a happy brawl of tone and color, shows off a few of the complications that may develop when parents arrange marriages for their children and the children arrange their romances otherwise...
...Pursued (Warner) and Boomerang! (20th Century...