Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Written in tones of resignation-to domestic economics and to the march of progress in Atomic Age weapons-Great Britain's message to the world was a historic landmark in military history. The British decision to convert almost completely to nuclear-armed missiles (see FOREIGN NEWS) had deep meaning for all of the world, but for the U.S. it had very special significance. Said the British White Paper: "The free world is today mainly dependent for its protection upon the nuclear capacity...
...That brought the committee's total score so far to about $1 billion out of seven bills totaling $14.5 billion. But upwards of half the chips in that impressive $1 billion pile are phony, e.g., $207 million out of payments to veterans, $76 million out of old-age-assistance grants to states. Federal outlays of this sort are governed by laws, and as long as the laws remain on the books. Congress has no choice but to appropriate, sooner or later, whatever money is needed...
...York Club also has an even record this season, having lost narrowly to Princeton and beaten Wall Street. Its greatest strength lies in the experience of its players, many of whom are Britons working in New York. With an average age of about 30, it wins the oldest-local-rugby-team title by a comfortable margin...
Arbiter of Dalliance. If Publius Ovidius Naso (i.e., "Big Nose") had any qualms about the decadence of Augustan Rome, it can only be inferred, as in Restoration comedy, from the intensity of his frivolity. "Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication," says Translator Humphries. In a city of such sophisticates, Ovid, whose unlikely origin was the hard, bitter soil of Abruzzi (where he was born 2,000 years ago last month), became the elegant arbiter of sexual dalliance. The Art of Love has no four-letter words, only four-letter situations. Written in a sportively professorial...
Hallam L. Movius '30, Curator of Paleolithic Archeology in the Peabody Museum, has been one of the country's foremost authorities on the Stone Age man, through his explorations in Ireland, France, Central Europe and Burma...