Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to be able to get along on the government cheeks now or even with an increase, write at once to MR. Roy Thompson, Federal Reserve System offices, 20th and Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. (Mrs.) Judith Emmanuel, Wife of a Student
...greatest embalming job of the 20th Century was the mummification of V. I. Lenin. Until last week, the technique had always remained a dark secret of Soviet science. Finally, Dr. Herwig Hamperl, famed Austrian pathologist who taught in Moscow and was a close friend of the embalmers, let the world in on some of the secret...
...most important and surprising thing about Anna and the King of Siam is that they go through 100 minutes of film and manage to maintain an intelligent, if platonic, relationship that must set a new record for Hollywood forbearance. In the place of love under the Siamese moon, 20th-Century-Fox has fashioned an interesting tale of what can happen when a prim but courageous English-woman goes to take up the white man's burden and remains to guide the destiny of a struggling monarch and his nation. All this is decidedly novel for a high-budget film...
Maybe it's my Calvinism cropping up in me, but I think we've already begun to lose the peace. In some places it's indifference. In others, like that Methodist church out in Michigan, they adopt the 20th Century version of crucifixion-getting rid of their pastor when he speaks the truth as he sees it [see below...
...margins of income that can be secured by greater skill or experience -and it is the real margin, after taxation, that counts. ... It will only lead to disaster to pretend that ordinary human beings are angels or philosophers (of either the Marxist or the Spencerian professions). . . . Even in the 20th Century, most of them are more like donkeys driven by desire for gain or fear of hunger...