Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pace of work had begun to tell on other Ministers. John Strachey (Food) had been down with flu. Sir Stafford Cripps (Trade) had been out with a chill. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was nursing his high blood pressure. At a cocktail party a friend told him that he looked well. Said Bevin: "I feel worse than I look." Clem Attlee, an early riser, toiled to the Churchillian hour of 2:30 a.m. to handle the extra work...
Gielgud is currently appearing in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Ernest," at the Plymouth Theater in Boston. This is his first American season of comedy...
...decision was announced today at the final meeting with Arabs in the unsuccessful London Conference on Palestine by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin who admitted failure in Britain's long efforts to put forward an acceptable compromise between Jews and Arabs...
Last week, a University of California researcher reported that he had discovered a new blood test for pregnancy. Dr. Ernest W. Page, an obstetrics professor, claimed that his new test had three important advantages: 1) it is faster; 2) it can determine the date of conception within a five-day margin of error, thus forecasting more accurately when the baby will be born; and 3) it provides a continuous check throughout pregnancy on whether the fetus is still alive...
Though Cambridge, Mass, was the home town of three famous colleges (Harvard, Radcliffe, M.I.T.), its public schools were backward. In protest, Harvard's famed Philosopher William Ernest Hocking pulled his children out of them. On the sun porch of his home, in 1914, he and a Harvard colleague founded a school of their own. They and their wives taught and ran it themselves for a few years; but Shady Hill School grew too fast for them. It was then that Philosopher Hocking & Co. went looking for somebody to take over, and found a golden-haired schoolmarm named Katharine Taylor...