Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behavior, sympathetically abet what they consider "oppressed" youth. The surest way of insuring public confidence is a more practical approach toward such minor matters as the eleven o'clock beer. Another measure which would secure greater public confidence would be to lower the age limit to eighteen, at least on relatively harmless wines and beers, if not on hard liquors...
Members have increased steadily since the opening of the Center eighteen years ago in pre-Revolutionary Brattle House. Actually, the Center traces its history back to 1889 when the Cambridge Social Union bought the house with an eye toward "providing innocent amusements and means of social and intellectual improvement." With the decline of innocent amusements during the 20's, the Social Union recognized defeat, and fifteen years passed without a meeting of the board of directors. Not until 1938 did Brattle House return to its mission for cultural improvement when the Cambridge Center for Adult Education opened with 19 courses...
...Eighteen thousand Japanese, buzzing with admiration, visited Tokyo's National Museum last week to see the work of an artist who died 450 years ago. Known by his painter name, "Sesshu" (Snow Boat), he is today rated as Japan's greatest landscape artist; his works are valued at up to $250,000 each, and four are classed as "national treasures." So enthusiastic were the crowds that turned out to inspect the 30 Sesshu masterpieces on view that the museum broke precedent, was open on Mondays for the first time since its opening...
...Eighteen months ago Andrei Vishinsky, the man who knew the answer to all these conjectures, died in the New York headquarters of the Soviet U.N. delegation. Since then Stalin's successors have hinted that the military trials of 1937 that wiped out the whole top layer of the Red army were frame-ups. Last week the journal Soviet State and Law denounced the whole process of trial by confession...
...Eighteen of Stalin's top international incendiaries met in Poland in 1947 "to reorganize the general staff of the world revolution." The Cominform they created, even more than the old Comintern that Stalin had diplomatically dissolved in wartime 1943, failed to set the world on fire. Barely a year later, Tito's Yugoslavia split off from Stalin's world, and the furious tyrant turned the energy of the Cominform to attacking and destroying Tito. It failed at that...