Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Consider the case of the young intellect from San Francisco--assuming some unearthly despotic system were in effect this year to detain early leavers, the San Fransciscan could not legally leave South Station by train until 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 21st. Accordingly, he would not come rolling in until Christman Eve, barely in time to hang up his stocking, and certainly too late to fill anyone else's. The foolhardy gent who chose to ride the bus could arrive no sooner than noon on Christmas Day assuming that the bus was on time, too late to give and worse...
February will see the Crimson play Brown, away, on the 3rd, Syracuse on the 7th, Princeton on the 10th, Columbia on the 11th, Princeton, way, on the 15th, Columbia, away, on the 21st, Penn, away, on the 22nd, and Boston College on the 25th...
...Deputies returned to their constituencies to consider the fate of France's 21st government in nine years. In their absence, Premier Faure, to present returning Deputies with the sense of something being accomplished, pushed and prodded until at last he was able to announce that the long-promised throne council had been set up to govern Morocco...
...Uniontown, Pa., more than 100,000 Roman Catholics at the 21st annual pilgrimage of the Pittsburgh Greek Rite Diocese to the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help heard Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York sing the first pontifical Mass (Byzantine rite) ever offered in English. The congregation joined in prayer for the conversion of Russia. Bishop Sheen prayed that the Communist hammer-and-sickle symbol "may be transfigured so that the sickle will look like the moon under Our Lady's feet and the hammer like the cross from which Christ will forgive His persecutors...
...claims to being a major power. France has invested tens of billions of dollars in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Its businessmen depend heavily on them for markets, raw materials and labor; its army taps their manpower. "Without North Africa," French imperialists say, "France would have no history in the 21st century. We should be 40 million Frenchmen facing twice that number of Germans. Another Portugal...