Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outstanding men for advanced training in the humanities, physical sciences and social sciences has always been more difficult than in the case of law, medicine, and business. The condition has been further worsened, he said, by "the unprecedented gap which is being cut by the war in the column of students marching forward year by year to become the subsequent scholars, teachers and research workers of the country...
Edgar Ansel Mowrer, political columnist and author (Germany Puts the Clock Back), is a left of center liberal who is no Russophobe. But he has been watching recent events in Europe with a deepening distaste. Last week, in a syndicated column (Press Alliance) headed "Accepting the Challenge," he tartly told the U.S. that the time had come to stand up to Russia at the next Big Three meeting (see U.S. AT WAR). Said Mowrer: "Marshal Joseph Stalin's hasty recognition of the Lublin Moscow-manufactured Polish Committee as the Provisional Government of Poland is a challenge flung...
...threatens grave embarrassment to the British Government." A spokesman of the Government called the royal statement, issued without his Government's sanction, "unconstitutional." In Belgrade, some 50,000 of King Peter's subjects shouted: "Down with the destroyer of unity, King Peter! Down with the Fifth Column émigrés...
...were ready with antitank guns that travel 400 m.p.h. - P47 Thunderbolt fighter bombers. For the next four hours the Thunderbolts struck in groups of four, boring in through the mist with flak-scarred wings nearly scraping the towering hills, to drop their bombs and to rake the column with rockets. One contingent found another column of comparable size on a winding road, gave it the lethal works...
...column ("As Roosevelt Sees It") was short-lived, ran just eight days in the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph in April and May, 1925. Franklin Roosevelt, then at Warm Springs, wrote the pieces to fill in for his friend Thomas W. Loyless, the Telegraph's regular columnist. More often than not, his style was playfully folksy. Sample: "It sure is time to get another Democratic Administration." But in one solid column, Franklin Roosevelt objected vigorously to the way the 1925 Navy maneuvers in the Pacific were announced by the Coolidge Administration. Wrote he: "It is hardly tactful ... to give . . . the impression...