Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American propaganda agencies have been bungling badly. U. S. propaganda is aimed at the "more intelligent clements" in the various countries, although ECA in Italy has been making a genuine try to reach "the Italian in the street"; the Communists are steadily plugging away at farmers and factory workers...
Neither Harvard nor any other university can afford to have students shy away from the controversial questions of the day. Education verges on the meaningless if a student feels he is taking a personal risk when he seeks to listen to, understand, and grapple with troublesome ideas. University officials, in statements made over the years, have shown that Harvard understands this principle. If the principle is to stand, the University now must use all the power at its command to end these interferences with free inquiry made in the name of loyalty. It would be pointless, and harmful to military...
Lena Horne is probably the only person capable of singing "Stormy Weather" in a movie scene, while a large, crystalline tear courses down her right cheek--and get away with it. She manages to make the schmalz inherent in the scene seem plausible. That the script calls upon her to perform such a feat, and that she does it, present a good summary of quality of both script and performers...
...height with superior speed, and took their game from a tall but slow Eliot team. The score stood at 10-6 for the Funsters after the first half, but the Elephants were held to four points during the latter half while Duster piled up 14 points to run away with the game, 24-10. Duane Lanszerk of the Funsters took high scoring honors...
Star of the meet was Dave Hedberg who swam the 100-yard free style in 53.2 seconds, only 2 seconds away from the pool record for this event. Hedberg's time was better by 5 seconds than the varsity time swum last night...