Word: drews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War II drew the destinies of the countries of the Western Hemisphere closer together than they had ever been, the news of Canada and Latin America was placed in separate major departments in TIME in order to call our readers' attention to its growing significance. Now the editors have decided to combine Canada and Latin America into a single new department, the better to report the news of their increasingly collective actions. In the last ten years, for instance, trade between Canada and Latin America has increased 1,000%. Whereas Canada's trade with Latin America...
Setting his feet squarely on the edge of his desk, adjusting his green eyeshade and squaring his handkerchief, the Vagabond wet his fingers and started leafing through Holiday magazine. He had done this so often that now the pages leaped up as his thumb drew near, leaped up and fell back until the Chosen Spot appeared. Vag wasted little time with the pictures; the article itself moved him more, for hidden there was a great truth and the more he pondered it, the truer it seemed...
Debate Council speakers Frank Boas '51 and Peter Clayton '50 defeated a pair of Drew University debaters on the subject "Equalization of Education Opportunity in the states through federal grants" in the Lowell House Senior Common Room last night...
...Drew countered that inefficiency in education administration in the states accounts for much of the inadequacy. Amil and Cullerton suggested that a rezoning of school districts, aimed at a consolidation of educational facilities in sparsely settled areas, might solve the schooling problem without federal...
...windup of the program, a rally in Constitution Hall, drew a near-capacity crowd of 3,600. Speakers bore down heavily on Catholics who want state support for church schools. Said Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "One of the most important bastions of the fortress of religious liberty is the American principle of the separation of church and state. A full-scale attack upon this principle . . . has been launched by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church . . . The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in the separation of church and state . . . The question of public support for parochial education does...