Word: classing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chauncey Tinker got his first glimpse of Johnson's Age as a Yale undergraduate, class of '99. Before that, he had lived the peripatetic life of a minister's son (Maine to Colorado), and his great ambition was to be a conductor on the Boston & Maine railway. After Yale, he taught one year at Bryn Mawr and fell in love with a student-"a very beautiful girl." She married someone else, and Tinker settled into bachelordom...
...president of the University of Texas Medical Branch. But there is some hope, he said, in experimental work on vitamins as a means of making oldsters feel at least a little spryer. There seems no possibility of learning how to keep the heart, blood vessels and kidneys in first-class working condition deep into old age. But, asked Dr. Leake: "Do any of us want to? ... Will it not be possible for us some day to realize that death is a part of life...
...outside visitor, the most interesting class is that on Communism. Beneath a crucifix on the classroom wall hang two poster-size diagrams of the Soviet state organization. With the classics of Communism before them (as well as Cominform publications and books from Moscow), the young priests gather around a big table to discuss, with dialectical zeal, the fine points of Marxism. Explains their instructor, former philosophy professor Canon Don Emilio Benavent...
...present round trip London fare of $630 ($466.70 on a special winter rate) to $405, whenever his foreign and U.S. competitors will string along (they control fares on the North Atlantic through the International Air Transport Association). Such a cut would put it well under first-class steamer rates...
...Christian Epoch" (the 20th Century) when the Goddess "evokes" him into an unstated time in the future. At first glance, he thinks New Crete looks wonderful. Money and machinery have been abolished; matriarchy has made everybody happy; poets, witches and magicians are thick as nuts and considered an elite class...