Word: cation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greatest honor that Oberammergau has to offer is the role of Christ, twice played in the '30s by Hotel Proprietor Alois Lang. In 1947, Lang was let off lightly by a de-Nazifi cation court after he had protested that the Nazis had bullied him into joining the party. Last week, the part of Christ went to 37-year-old Anton Preisinger. The change had nothing to do with Lang's Nazi past (ex-Nazi Preisinger was also fined by the same court), but because Lang doubted whether, at 58, he could stand the physical ordeal...
...answers were brought forward by the University president to the question, "Why should the citizens of a relatively wealthy state be taxed to help the edu- cation in poorer states?" He said that 1) the nation's youth are "future citizens of the entire country" and (2) the people of the U. S. are mobile so that the school child of a poor area is the potential inhabitant of a wealthy city...
Many an old-line Navy officer wouldn't have given it another thought. Rear Admiral James Lemuel Holloway Jr. did. Not long afterwards, Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal put Holloway at the head of a ten-man board (including two civilian educators) to revamp Navy edu. cation. The Navy had realized that it would desperately need officers for the postwar fleet-far more than the Naval Academy could turn...
Would you like to know the exact lo cation of Heaven? What its inhabitants look like, their occupation, and whether the children grow up? These and other questions will be answered in a clear and simple way in a lecture given in Advent House Chapel, on Friday night. ... A Technicolor filmstrip will follow the lecture. (Advt...
...this may not have signified much more than a bride's beginning to buy her trousseau in expectation. A better indi cation may have been given by a seemingly platitudinous statement that pious, hard-hitting General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery gave to the press...