Word: acree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The war of bullets did not rage as hot last week as the war of communiques. But behind the curtain of Arab and Jewish censorship, men & women were fighting and dying. For the most part, both Jews and Arabs stayed within the partition boundaries, fixed by U.N., but Israeli* forces...
Last week, on Founder's Day, President Harry Truman drove to Girard College to help celebrate its centennial. The college has a 42-acre campus whose classical buildings rise like a bit of ancient Athens out of a drab part of midtown Philadelphia. Girard is not really a college...
For 25 years, the headmistress sank her profits in the school. Then she borrowed $900,000 on her reputation, in 1931 moved the school into new Georgian buildings on a wooded, 200-acre estate overlooking the Potomac, twelve miles from town. Today there are 186 girls, and most of the...
Planned Byproducts. More than 1,000 graduates wandered nostalgically last week over Milton's 95-acre, $2,000,000 campus, watched a student production of Alumnus Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, heard speeches by Pundit Walter Lippmann, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Wellesley's Mildred McAfee Horton, Oxford...
Had the crest cf the boom been reached? The department found some evidence that it had. In three states (Florida, California and Louisiana), land prices had begun to sag. Land values almost everywhere else were still rising, but the rate was down from 1947. Income-wise, farm land was still...