Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Marshall protested that he needed more time, that he wanted to be sure no injustice was done. Said the committeemen: if there is any doubt at all, the employee should be fired. "It is not necessary to prosecute," insisted Committee Chairman Styles Bridges. "But get them out of the key spots in this Government. That is what we want...
...three years at Lincoln Park, Perkins has already done an impressive job of brightening up and modernizing. To start with, he rewrote almost every label in the place so that visitors could get at least a faint bit of information about his animals. He set up a Zooanswer Shop, where people could have their curiosity about animals satisfied. (No. 1 question: "What is the gestation period of an elephant?" Answer: 19 to 21 months.) He repainted cages. He opened a Zoorookery (a cageless exhibit of scores of pinioned birds). And he enlarged the reptile exhibit...
...Harvard Liberal Union will begin its summer term activities Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Kirkland House Common Room with a discussion of "What Can Be Done with the Germans," it was announced yesterday by Allan Barton '45, HLU spokesman...
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...Public Health Service's unspectacular mass X rays of the population (for early T.B. detection) have done most to take the T.B. death rate for a fall. This year a large-scale BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, named for its discoverers) vaccination project (TIME, Nov. 11) may take it still further. The plan, to vaccinate 100,000 U.S. schoolchildren against tuberculosis, has already been begun in Columbus, Ga., will soon move on to T.B. areas in large cities (including San Francisco's Chinatown). U.S. specialists, who have long viewed BCG with suspicion in spite...