Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking as a "gift to the Harvard Food Relief Committee" in recognition of the aid it has extended to the students of the University of Vienna, Walter has indicated that he will supplement his brief lecture with an informal discussion of subjects not restricted to Mozart or to "The Magic Flute...
...noted Polish educator, fled his country before the Nazi advance, but continued his educational work in exile. A former Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the Preparatory Commission of UNESCO, he has recently been elected Reconstruction and Rehabilitation director. He is currently in the United States on a brief tour...
...professional tutors due entirely to "unethical" or counter-educational practices, or was it basically an indictment of Harvard teaching? Since the college examinations are not affairs of fact and rote, it cannot be said that we trained the memory and impoverished the understanding. It is possible that, in brief compass, we taught our students to think on fundamentals sufficiently well to impress their academic mentors. If this be a fault, I ery "Peccavi...
Into a waiting microphone, Marshall spoke a brief message: "This is my first real view of Russia and the Russian people, except for a brief period at remote Yalta." His blue eyes twinkled at the word "remote," as though it could be taken to mean not only Yalta's distance in time & space, but also the remoteness of Yalta's mood of fatuous confidence. That afternoon, Ernie Bevin, 66 that day, dropped in on Molotov, who had turned 57 on the same day; the double birthday party was not festive...
...plane which brought him here from Berlin he was asked by Soviet newsmen for a message to the Russians. In a statement later broadcast over the home radio he voiced pleasure at the opportunity of having "my first real view of Russia and the Russian people, except for a brief period at remote Yalta...