Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal aid is necessary for United States secondary schools to solve the problems which confront them, Cyril G. Sargent, assistant professor of Education told the CRIMSON yesterday. Sargent is an expert in secondary school education at the Graduate School of Education...
With her, and settling down as her next-door neighbor, has come a dilettantish, old-maidish male (Cyril Ritchard). Against her, from the moment she arrives, is the formidable Miss Mapp, a manhunting, stop-at-nothing Nosey Parker (Catherine Willard). The struggle for primacy between the two women-Lucia's efforts to dethrone Miss Mapp as a tyrant, Miss Mapp's to unmask Lucia as a fraud-produces a series of mock-heroic crescendos and climaxes...
...Punch's well-ensconced readers would not be startled from their armchairs: they had chuckled over the cartoons of rotund Cyril Kenneth Bird, 61, for years. As art editor, Bird, a jolly, crinkly little man, has been responsible for much of the streamlining of Punch in recent years. He had worked under quiet and gracious Editor Edmund George Valpy Knox* ("Evoe" to his readers), who was now retiring at 67. Bird will take over as editor next All Fools...
...years ago England's waspish Critic Cyril Connolly attempted to figure out how to write a book that would attain the "immortality" of lasting for ten years-nine years longer, say, than the average novel. His own book on the subject, Enemies of Promise, has made the grade: first published in 1938, it has become a familiar, if not a favorite, of many English and U.S. intellectuals. It has now been reissued, and the story it tells is as interesting and topical as ever...
...possible for a Christian to be a Communist? It depends on what you mean by "Communist," says the Archbishop of York. Last week the Most Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett said that the early Christians were real communists, whose precept and practice had virtually disappeared from the earth...