Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grandiose program. Well practiced in mind conditioning, the Government has given top paper priorities to books and newspapers, determines how many copies of each book are to be printed and where distributed. Reader demand by itself can no more create a best-seller in Russia than public tastes can alter the content of the food ration. But popular writers sometimes get spectacular receptions, which indicate that Glavlit can guess wrong. For example, a 15,000-copy printing of Valentin Kateyev's Son of the Regiment lasted just three hours in Moscow bookshops...
...this group wishes to prove that "Not all the education at East Lansing goes on in the classrooms," it should alter its club program at once. Lest they bore their husbands to death, let them study (at college level) science, philosophy, economics and sociology. Let them learn to love great literature, art and music. They should cultivate the lost art of intelligent conversation, and throw away the bridge tables...
...Papal supporters, as distinguished from the White nobility, or royalist adherents. † Early in their careers the two Churchills agreed that one should alter his name, to avoid confusion. The Englishman consented to make the change because the American was three years older and far more famous at the time, has signed his writings Winston S. Churchill ever since...
Information uncovered on Harmon's activities immediately after his sudden withdrawal from College last December 7 fixed the time of death very close to that date. Before he left Cambridge "he did those things a man would do who was going to alter, or to end, his life," said Dr. Brickley...
...been estimated that in two years the delicate mechanism of training will have ground out sufficient numbers of instructors to give department heads quality as well as quantity to choose from. With this prospect within view, relatively few of the departments have made any attempt to alter their budgets to absorb this new strength. In the Social Sciences, Government still offers tutorial to that 25 percent who are candidates for honors; History has not budged from its original stand, and Economics offers no tutorial but merely a makeshift arrangement for thesis consultation. More disconcerting than this present indifference...