Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the 21st branch "Borstal," on the Earl of Plymouth's Worcestershire estate, opened its doors. Working without supervision, an advance party of Borstal boys began to restore the Earl of Plymouth's formal gardens and help convert his 52-bedroom mansion into a home for 150 Borstal delinquents. In their spare time they studied engineering and carpentering. Before the Borstal boys arrived, the worried villagers had thrown up their hands at the prospect of such "rough, nasty" neighbors; now some of them had invited the boys into their homes...
Five solid triumphs are the major reason for the high opinion people have of the Ithaca quintet. Included among the team's victims are Rochester, Niagara, Yale, Colgate and Vermont, while Coach Earl Brown's strong Canisius club handed a ten-point defeat to the squad last Saturday. The Big Red's 21-point crushing defeat of Yale places Cornell temporarily in first place in the Ivy League alongside Pennsylvania, also a victor over the Elis...
Ohio's other hopeful, John Bricker, cried: "It's a wide-open race. Anyone can come in." California's Earl Warren was still reluctant, though the liberal, Democratic Los Angeles Daily News had begun tub-thumping on his behalf...
...there was an alternative theory: maybe the party line had changed again and Lombardo was shifting with it (as U.S. Communists would shift if the line changed from the Foster class-struggle position back to Earl Browder's let's-seem-to-go-along tactics). In any case, Mexico's Communist Party, with a bare 8,000 members, was one of Latin America's least formidable. "There'll be no Communist revolution in Mexico," Adolf Berle had said. "Mexicans have had their revolution-after their own fashion...
...N.A.M.'s effort to change, said Earl Bunting, "is an evolutionary thing, more than an about-face; it's an abandonment of prejudices which some of us have had in the past. It's our aim now to go right down the middle of the road...