Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Favored teams in this meeting of cast coast cross country talent are Dartmouth and Army, but in a five mile race with 63 entries anything can happen, and Jaakko hopes to get some of his men in the low scoring positions. Last year, Army, one of the newcomers to the new nine-sided Heptagonal, took home the lowest score and the Indians captain, Jack Hanley, who will be leading his team this year, won the coveted first place...
...Houses. Lumber production for September was three billion board feet, 14% less than in August. A decline in production of other much-needed housing materials-brick & tile, plumbing fixtures, gypsum board-was partially offset by an increase in production of hardwood flooring, cement, clay sewer pipe, cast-iron soil pipe, and asphalt roofing...
...sinful screen career, Miss Davis has played many a fetching, high-tragedy bad girl; in Deception she is merely a hysterical bad liar. Hero Henreid is an unlovable, nitwitted neurotic. Claude Rains, as the hammy composer who keeps telling Bette off, is cast as the villain but, by default, he wins the audience's wholehearted admiration and sympathy...
Witness-Box Characters. Koestler starts with loaded dice. The very qualities that make Thieves in the Night first-rate Jewish special pleading make it also unsatisfying as fiction. Every character is part of a carefully arranged witness-box cast, and the arrangement is too deliberate ly designed to give both sides of the story. It is almost as if the author didn't quite trust his Zionist approach to stand on its own feet...
...defunct League in the reduction of the same principle to a scale of five powers. But from the record of the Security Council's first year, it is apparent that reaching agreement among five great nations is as difficult as it is among fifty small ones, most of which cast their ballots in sympathy with one or another of the major powers...