Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gide's individualism led him to reject Communism (after a visit to the U.S.S.R. in 1936), and to scorn vulgar popularity. He once wrote: "I have passionately desired fame . . . [but] I like to be liked on good grounds." Apparently Gide, who thinks membership in the French Academy is beneath him, thought the Swedish Academy liked him on good grounds. He said the Nobel award made him "very happy." He was also richer by 146,115 Swedish crowns...
...stay afloat in a Third World War, the navies of the world will have to sink beneath the waves--this was the paradoxical prediction yesterday of Samuel Eliot Morison '07, naval expert and Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History...
Such a split College personality does not materialize of a sudden in the sophomore year of every class. It starts with the mass that pours through Memorial Hall for the first time every September, a mass that beneath the conglomerate look of be-wilderment already contains the seeds of its own division. Groups of Freshmen filter through--some alone and distant, some bred in the suburbs of Boston, some marked with the imprint of New England's boarding schools. Before the lines disappear, the little knots of conversation have started to coalesce into shadowy outlines of the independent masses they...
...royal procession, and in the ornate House of Lords befurred peeresses, morning-coated peers and Members of Parliament bowed as the King took his place in. front of a row of bewigged law lords in scarlet and ermine. But when the King stood up to deliver his official speech, beneath the royal panoply the overalls of Labor were plainly visible...
...women and children and bullocks and groaning carts were plodding eastward and westward beneath the autumn skies and nights of the cloven Punjab; past unharvested fields, past empty villages and eviscerated villages and villages which resemble rained-out brush fires. Huge, forlorn concentrations of Sikhs and Hindus labored forward to leave the West Punjab forever. On one day last week, columns No. 8 and 9 moved across the famous Balloki headworks between Amritsar and Lahore and passed into the Indian Dominion; not far behind, foot columns No. 10, 11 and 12 lumbered steadfastly eastward. Carefully feeling its way around Amritsar...