Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could anything be done about it? Something could be; but probably nothing would be. Republicans were determined to sit tight while accusing the President of failing to use the anti-inflation powers he already had. The President's own program was a far cry from his fighting speech in Philadelphia. In the frigid atmosphere of Capitol Hill, his subdued tones and cautious suggestions were like the speech of a small boy who is ordered to repeat in court the bold words he had used in the alley...
About 50 years ago the Germans came to Ruanda-Urundi to supervise the way in which the Batutsi ran the Bahutu. After World War I the Belgians proved to everyone's satisfaction that the Germans had done a very poor job of supervising. The Belgians took over...
Private Lives. In fact, the Belgians have done a lot for Ruanda-Urundi. They built roads, fostered trade, fought disease and, having the natives' welfare at heart, discouraged them from excessive drinking of a beer they made out of bananas...
...contemporary of Michelangelo's, was trying to describe one of the seven figures which the sculptor had carved for the Medici Chapel in Florence's Church of San Lorenzo. Charles de Tolnay, a Michelangelo scholar and member of Princeton's highbrow Institute for Advanced Study, has done much better. In a newly published book of bold erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that Michelangelo, like...
When science had done so much, what might science not do? In Massachusetts last week, many a fanner and townsman listened to word of the newest miracle, eager to believe. And the wonder grew-for a while...