Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dining hall problem is on the agenda of the Student Welfare Committee, no report was planned immediately. However, when an epidemic broke out among students eating in dining halls serviced by the central Kirkland kitchen last week, the matter received more immediate attention. The poisoning has been attributed to either the milk or gravy served Friday...
...welcome at the Institute, but Oppenheimer had something different in mind: a continuous world traffic in ideas. For such foreign scholars as Denmark's Bohr and Britain's Dirac and Toynbee, Oppenheimer hoped to work out periodic repeat performances, so that they would never wholly lose touch either with the U.S. or with home base. Said Oppenheimer: "The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person...
...bearlike Karl Barth of Basel, Switzerland, had jolted the Amsterdam delegates with a speech on the text: Take counsel together and it shall come to naught . . . for God is with us! (Isaiah 8:10). Perhaps, he said, the much-regretted absence of either Roman Catholic or Russian Orthodox delegates was God's doing: "I propose that we should now praise and thank God, that it pleases Him to stand so clearly in the way of our plans." Barth warned the churchmen that their job was to bear witness to the Gospel -not to presume to the world-saving functions...
...readers who enjoy that peculiarly English grace of being lighthearted about the deadly serious, Charles Williams will be a discovery indeed. Novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, who regards him as more important than either of such Christian authors as T. S. Eliot or C. S. Lewis, has spoken of Williams as "the figure who reaffirmed for intellectuals the truth that all created things are vehicles for the glory and reality...
...Houses, this has all been fine. But so far the one great block to the success of the Plan has been that the Houses have not been able to bring together enough of their residents. A large number of men have not cared to enter Houses activities, either because they belong to a social club which draws their allegiance, or because they simply aren't interested. The second group is the largest, and the Houses have not attracted these men because of a variety of little and big reasons...