Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attlee and 13 members of Labor's shadow cabinet* took their places on the platform in Committee Room 14, overlooking the Thames. All but a handful of Labor's 294 M.P.s squeezed into the stifling room, and Nye Bevan, dressed in black, took a chair in the corner to the right of the platform. The questions before the court were purely disciplinary: Had Bevan flouted the party, and if so, how should he be punished? Wispy little Clement Attlee assumed the prosecutor's role...
Professor Commager's theme that "everyone ought to dissent from everything for dissension's sake . . , is all a negation, praising liberty because liberty gives opportunity to demolish ancient things, and praising the Academy because the Academy may be utilized as a safe corner from which to dislodge the wisdom of our ancestors...
Today the IBM empire spreads to every corner of the world, selling or renting business machines at the rate of $461 million in 1954. In the U.S. alone, IBM employs 34,000 workers; at six plants (Endicott, Poughkeepsie and Kingston, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; Greencastle, Ind.; San Jose, Calif.) it makes 5,960 different models of business machines which it sells or rents through 188 U.S. offices. Overseas, IBM's World Trade Corp., run by 35-year-old Arthur Watson, Tom Jr.'s younger brother, employs 16,500 more workers in 17 smaller plants, 227 offices in 79 nations...
Religion lost its dominant position on the key corner of the Square in 1833, when the old meeting house was razed and Dane Law College, the first Harvard Law School, appeared on its foundations. The law era lasted some sixty years, but as the University grew in wealth, the bursars office inevitably took precedence. Lehman Hall now almost obscures a small, grey tombstone, marking the site of the old meeting house, and the rattle of the subway drowns any echo of the days when Puritan preachers poured out fire and brimstone in the Square...
...Author Ethel Mannin (Two Studies in Integrity, Late Have I Loved Thee) saw Christ speaking at Hyde Park Corner and Tower Hill. In the U.S. "His command to the rich to 'sell all that thou hast and give to the poor' might make Him suspect of 'Communist' leanings. His preaching might fall into the category of 'unAmerican activities.' But provided He didn't clash too badly . . . He would probably be invited to speak at women's clubs, and His teaching would be regarded as a new cult worthy of the attention...