Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ARMAND E. SINGER West Virginia University Morgantown, W. Va. ¶ Reader Singer is right. At the time of Cervantes' death, Protestant England was using the Julian (Old Style) calendar, which was ten days behind Spain's-and the rest of Catholic Europe's-Gregorian (New Style) calendar...
While the Red terror in Czechoslovakia mounted, Hungary's highest court weighed the fate of Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister who had been sentenced to death as a Titoist traitor (TIME, Oct. 3). Rajk had specifically refused to appeal for clemency, but against his will his lawyer had sent an appeal to the Council of People's Courts. Rajk need not have worried: the council, not renowned for its clemency, rejected the appeal. Next day Rajk was hanged, presumably in Budapest...
...late Professor Spencer was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and taught advanced composition and Shakespeare at Harvard until his death last January...
After this, we know nothing, but we presume the moose died a natural death, still the uncrowned champion of all trained moose and ostriches in existence...
...story of "Mystery Street" concerns efforts of Massachusetts police to investigate a Cape Cod death. Police in the plot ask Harvard's Department of Legal Medicine to examine the body for clues. The scenes in the Yard show investigators asking College students for directions to the Legal Medicine Department...