Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Bogart: "I belong to ICCASP because I believe in the principles promulgated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. My choice for President in 1948 is Harold Stassen...
Lawed from the Beat. Reporters or papers that won't play ball are turned down for membership, are then denied admission to press conferences because they don't "belong." All but one or two of Japan's 50-odd new postwar papers have been kept out. Jiji, Japan's second-biggest news agency, with membership in only two clubs, has to feed its clients unofficial, secondhand yarns...
...whom do the .districts rightfully belong? Zinder told of an unlettered but wily Turkish mayor of Erzurum, largest town in the region, who just before World War I tried to give a convincing answer to a British investigating committee. The old mayor was bored by a day-long statistical and ethnical analysis of the Turkish and Armenian cases. Brusquely he cut short the discussion and led the delegates to the local Armenian cemetery. Then he showed them a much larger Turkish cemetery. "Figures like these," he said...
...Council sifted a musty mountain of testimony, boiled the issue down to one question: did it rain in Darjeeling on May 9, 1909? Last week the Privy Council decided that it had. It ruled in Roy's favor, restored to him the privileges and wealth that rightfully belong to the Kumar of Bhowal...
...pages of closely reasoned analyses of the histories of Mexico, the U.S., Britain, Germany, Russia and the Orient, Professor Northrop concentrates on science, religion and art, but ranges all over the cultural map. One of his basic theses is that the present forms of all Western cultures belong to the past because the assumptions behind them no longer square with scientific and hence philosophical truth. Indeed, they never did; Northrop says that the last system of thought that accounted coherently for all the facts of science known at the time was the Aristotelian system of St. Thomas Aquinas (circa...