Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western Arithmetic. These are some of the more bizarre symptoms of what ails world trade. This week in Geneva, the representatives of 18 nations* will meet, chiefly to hear what the U.S. thinks can be done...
...time. He was proud of his efficiency. Told of Hermann Göring's remark at Nürnberg that Hoess could not possibly have taken 2,000,000 lives, the exterminator sputtered: "That shows how little he knows about how we worked. Why, I could have done twice as much." Hoess's beady eyes did not flicker as the sentence was read. It was death, by hanging. He got a few days of reprieve. Polish law forbids execution, even of such as Hoess, during Holy Week...
...queued up outside the new bars, but when they got inside, they seemed ill at ease. It was plain that in sedate Toronto, where last week, for the first time in 31 years,* it became legal to drink hard liquor in public, the people had forgotten how it was done...
...make the play, Poet MacLeish reverently lifted pieces from the four gospelers and from Bach's B Minor Mass, St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion. These fitted elements he reconciled into a compelling drama. And he reconciled the whole drama, in a way that has seldom been done, with the special predicaments of broadcasting...
...reliefs were done for Městrović's family chapel at Split, but when he or they will get back there he doesn't know, since he is no Tito supporter. Since he reached the U.S. in January, Městrović has been teaching at Syracuse University. Surroundings do not much concern him; he can work anywhere, he says, even in prison (where the Pietà was started). His concentrated philosophy: "Without the past there cannot be a future...