Word: brunswicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...century ago, the tiny vessel Brunswick sailed from the French port of Le Havre for New Orleans with a mixed human cargo. Of its 180 passengers, 60 were ordinary German immigrants, 80 were pre-Marxist communists who called themselves Icarians, and the other 40 were communists who called themselves Trappist monks. The Icarians were coming to the U.S. to build a materialist Utopia, the Trappists to build a monastery where they could contemplate God. The last Icarian Utopia, at Cloverdale, Calif., fizzled out in 1895. Today in the U.S., there are six Trappist monasteries where some 500 monks dwell "above...
Today, whenever he can get away from Ottawa, St. Laurent makes a beeline for Quebec and the family house in the Grande Allée. It gives him a chance to surround himself with his family, of whom he never tires. (On a New Brunswick holiday this summer, the St. Laurent party totaled 27 ?sons, daughters, in-laws and grandchildren.) In Quebec St. Laurent also finds time for golf (over 100), his only sport except flyfishing. At the Royal Quebec Golf Club one day this summer, St. Laurent went out without a caddy. Said one of the pros...
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, is in the peculiar situation of being a hybrid university. It is private in most respects, but it has financial dependence on the state. This makes Rutgers University more uneasy about its actions than some private schools, but not so fearful of direct interference as most state universities...
From payments already received Rutgers will build a $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology (study of living organisms too small for the naked eye to see) on the campus at New Brunswick. Also on hand or in sight is $250,000 from the Waksman gift to be used for the institute's operating expenses. Dr. Waksman, on the Rutgers staff for more than 25 years, will be the institute's director...
...painters finished in two minutes and 32 seconds, and the union business agent proudly announced that they had broken a record. Said Bob Hoelzle, a little shakily: "It's wonderful." Everybody in New Brunswick thought...