Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candidates for the State Department face more competition and stiffer requirements than beginners in any other section of government service, Christian M. Ravndal, director general of the Foreign Service said. "We must have the highest type of young man, since the nature of our work must exclude any second raters in our personnel," he said...
Potential State Department men should have a Bachelor of Arts degree and if they are interested in the foreign service division of the State Department they face a battery of "difficult, searching examinations," Ravndal disclosed...
...Robert D. Kilmarx heard the noises and came out of his room across the hall. He told the men to get out, and they did, not knowing that Cirrotta might have been severely injured. Kilmarx spoke to Cirrotta, who was washing his face, and returned to his room to study...
...Marquand's latest epic has been reviewed in all of the important magazines, his face has graced the covers of two of them in the same week, and the royalties will undoubtedly make him a much richer man than he already is. Even more than in his previous novels, he deals with a subject which will interest millions of people who can easily fit themselves into the place of Charley Gray, Mr. Marquand's protagonist. In addition, "Point of No Return" is written in a style so slick and even that one glides through it effortlessly, like sliding down...
...camera spares India neither praise nor blame. It takes a passing glance at the high, cool beauties of Kashmir, the shaded Western luxuries of India's rich, and the dark, woebegone face of an Indian waif circled by three buzzing flies. It watches a family of Untouchables eating a nameless dirty mush, then joins a poor but caste-proud Brahman for a chaste meal of fruit and vegetables, arranged, as elegantly as a still-life painting, on a large plantain leaf...