Word: faired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allegory was terrific. Unfortunately, Nehru wasn't looking for allegories. He was in the United States to see what the place was like, to meet the every-day people, to get a fair idea of Western civilization. The Prime Minister of India, which he calls the "Third Power," simply wanted to see if America was better than Russia. That's why he liked the booming Wellesley reception so much; that's why he told the girls: "I don't know what else to say--I shall remember this visit for a long time...
Such "catastrophic" explanations of the solar system made fair sense scientifically, and got grateful support from nonscientific people who preferred to believe that man and his earthly home are unique n the universe. Collisions or near-collisions between stars must be excessively rare. If it takes such a cosmic catastrophe ;o produce a planetary system, there is a good chance that man's earth may be the only chunk of matter with proper conditions for life to develop...
...speech, Congress passed a housing slum clearance bill, extended rent controls, increased the minimum wage, and (on the last day) approved a farm subsidy bill. An expanded social security program and a federal aid to education bill are expected to be ready early in January. The rest of the Fair Deal proposals were ignored or talked to death; a few were honestly defeated...
Walter H. Nolan, fact finder for the Fair Employment Practices Commission, yesterday began an investigation of charges that Hazen's Restaurant on Massachusetts Avenue was guilty of unfair discrimination in filling a job vacancy...
These proposals make good sense economically, politically, and morally. The DP's being kept in camps in Western Germany are a great financial liability, and further complicate the political situation in that nascent country. If we accept our fair share of these victims of changing boundaries, as our government has repeatedly promised, they will become self-supporting; they will not, as various veterans' groups have complained, push vets out of jobs, since each DP must have a position waiting before he arrives...