Word: abroad
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...once graced by Henry Ward Beecher. Active as a Republican, he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1930, became its speaker in 1939, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Named chairman of a Select House Committee on Foreign Aid, he led his committee abroad on a survey trip, laid much of the groundwork for the Marshall Plan legislation. So strict were Herter's rules that once, when the committee was traveling abroad, a sign appeared in the Queen Mary's lecture room: "Here sat the Committee on Foreign Aid/And worked like hell...
Gertrude's childhood, while not precisely happy or secure, was not unusual. The Steins took their children abroad for four years, where governesses and tutors worked to give them a European education. Miss Stein remembered having French bread with mutton soup for breakfast and always maintained that Paris got into her blood during that period...
...Sale. Unlike many past shortages in Red China, these are not the result of a Spartan decision to export agricultural products in order to purchase machinery abroad. In the past few months Peking's trade offensive in Southeast Asia-which seriously worried the Japanese-has begun to falter badly. Fortnight ago Mao's government, despite its need for foreign exchange, canceled a contract to supply British firms with several thousand tons of cotton and cotton waste, and this breach of contract will jeopardize future negotiations...
...Ugly American, bestselling plea for a better U.S. Foreign Service (TIME, Oct. 6), the authors virtually ask that Washington send abroad platoons of everyday saints, preferably with engineering degrees. The idea was eagerly echoed and extended last week by a conference that in effect urged all American Christians abroad to act as missionaries...
...teachers. Cramming for exams swallows a large proportion of the students' time, and since questions are drawn by lot from lists circulated weeks beforehand, it is possible for a hard-working parrot to have huge scholastic success. For panicked patriots who insist that the-U.S. look abroad for an educational model-something he does not suggest-Hechinger reports that Norwegian academies teach more math and physics than Soviet schools, and that "any French high school graduate would find the Russian [final] exam a breeze...