Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class is agreed that if sufficient information is not forthcoming before the end of the school year, they will hold their mock trial at the beginning of the next school year. Meanwhile, the boys & girls are becoming aware of the importance of making decisions on the basis of fact and information...
...straw man. The Church teaches (horror of horrors) that a Catholic cannot be married in the eyes of the Church except before a priest. Mr. Blanshard makes this delicate and purely religious matter clear only by implication in the footnotes which are grouped, I think unfortunately, at the end of the book. The rhetorical implication is that Catholics, encouraged by the teachings of their "costumed" clerics, view Protestant and Jewish marriage as conjugal union in a rabbit hutch...
...billion a year on expansion. He warned that power-men should not be lulled into thinking that long-term demands would lessen just because business had started to slip off. Said he: The current slide in business might last until the second quarter of next year. By the end of 1951, there should be an upturn that may bring production right back up to where...
...convincing story. With her, any old melodrama (even including secret drawers, lost wills, fantastic skeletons in impeccable family closets) passes for plot; all Novelist Compton-Burnett needs is the chance to reveal what she is really interested in revealing-the vices, virtues and idiosyncrasies of human behavior. To this end, too, the people in her novels talk all the time but never talk naturally: unlike real people they always say just what they think, and mean just what they say; when they fail to do so, there is always someone close at hand to do it for them, grimly. Thus...
...Connecticut finishes patching up its highway system from New Haven to the Massachusett's border, there remains only one big missing link in the concrete speedway from the Holland Tunnel to Portland, Maine. From Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where the Connecticut road ends, to Salisbury, the southern terminus of New Hampshire's new 15 mile paved strip, 150 miles of straggling, second-rate reads are Massachusetts' contribution to the east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization...