Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the meetings and many informal gatherings, I feel sure that the thousands of returning alumni will not only renew old acquaintanceships but also be brought in closer touch with postwar Harvard. They will find that the University has never been so crowded with eager students and has never been more anxious to give to these students an education which will satisfy their ambitions and desires. James B. Conant
Nearby, strategic Ceylon also moved closer to independence last week. London announced a new constitution which will bring Ceylon to the "threshold of Dominion status," with self-government, except in defense and foreign affairs. But across the Bay of Bengal the British would promise Burma nothing more than a new election and broader popular government before June 1947, "if all goes well...
...prophesied: "The reunion of the Church will come, and today there are many signs of its coming." Contact "between the Anglican churches and the great Catholic Orthodox churches of the East is growing constantly closer...
...While flying over vast expanses of the world as an Air Transport pilot," Ackerman says, "I had the idea that all the different peoples should be able to get closer together. There's a lot people right here in the U.S. can learn if they'll meet and understand each other...
...objected that the proposed rates had been set without reference to actual operating costs. They were also much closer to the high rates favored by the British than to the low rates U.S. lines had glowingly promised. In effect, CAB said what most U.S. airmen knew: I.A.T.A.'s cartel-like system of fixing fares would freeze them at a high level...