Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over 250 gifts for immediate use flowed into the Medical School, and the 1949-1950 total received a big boost only two weeks ago when the American Cancer Society added $100,000 to previous grants. But it's all a paradox. In too many cases, a gift received actually sinks the Medical School further into debt...
...polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference to this boy, or one like him, would be to continue a time-honored American custom, viz., discriminating unfairly against a human being because he could not overcome the crippling effects of disease. Everyone wants to help the poor athlete, but few consider the physically handicapped, than to the athlete! I wonder if those who extol the "sentiment" of school spirit can work up some sentiment...
...offers 20 summers tours this years, visiting England, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Yugoslavia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, Scotland, Austria, the Middle East, and Latin American...
...with the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and presently holds a permanent representative post on a UNESCO committee. This last position, according to Berrien, merely means going to Paris once or twice a year and writing memoranda. He currently gives or assists in seven courses in Spanish and Spanish American literature. Morize, a member of the administrative committee, has been one of the Center's chief benefactors in the way of furnishings and advice. The rest of the committee includes Renato Poggioli, associate professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature; Taylor Starck, professor of German; Francis M. Rogers, associated professor...
...Center's equipment also includes two sound scribers and three record players. Some students report as regularly as five times a week to use the linguaphone facilities. "American ears are just not turned to foreign languages," claims Mrs. Leggewie, and hearing these records seems to help them tremendously...