Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight's eclipse will be "prettier" than last April's, Federer expects. The moon is now at its furthest distance from the earth, and there will be more light within the shadow...
...judge's interpretation will be tested in our highest court. In a previous opinion last April the Justices split 4-4, thus upholding a loyalty test dismissal. With two new men this fall there will certainly be a different vote...
...just as certainly not a communist, a distinction which a number of people can't be bothered to make nowadays. In public speeches I have often heard him condemn the present dictatorship in Russia; I have also read an article in which he condemns the Atlantic Pact (International Journal, April '49; see also "Correspondence" in the July number.) He steers difficult course quite honestly and openly. To the right wing he's a commie; to the commies he's a "social fascist," whatever that means. To me, and, I should think, to most people he would be a welcome addition...
...case of Professor Glen Shortliffe, a Canadian who has been denied permission to enter this country by immigration officials, should give the U. S. people cause for uneasiness. Shortliffe accepted last April an appointment to the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. He received his American visa in June--yet only four days later that visa was invalidated by a peremptory exclusion order. The order said Shortliffe was "a person whose entry is deemed to be prejudicial to the public interests of the United States...
...embezzlement, harried with an incredible series of family troubles. He was at the bitter end of a bitter life, yet shortly after Don Quixote was done he wrote sweetly: "Goodbye to thanks, goodbye to compliments, goodbye to good friends. For I am dying." Miguel de Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as William Shakespeare...