Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard's major contribution to the education of the veteran will be measured, I believe in terms of professional training. My emphasis on this fact might leave in the minds of some the impression that we are indifferent in these days to the fate of the educational program of the college. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Like many another university, Harvard has been deeply concerned in the past twelve months with the question of the objectives of a college education--of a general education or a liberal education as apart from professional or preprofessional training...
Russia's puppetizing of Poland also drew protests from the U.S. and British press and liberals-but nothing like the hubbub they made when Prime Minister Winston Churchill attempted to preserve order in Greece. Liberal opinion was less concerned with the fate of the Poles than with the effect of Stalin's move on the Grand Alliance, the war and a future world security organization...
...Help Singing (Universal) cost $2,500,000 to produce, has a Jerome Kern score, throstle-throated Deanna Durbin, and the evident fine intention of turning out a cinemusical as full of sunlit Americana as Oklahoma!. As such it deserves a pleasant fate, and may earn it at the box office. But it can hardly fare well with critics, even the most generous...
...quarter-hour speech was painstakingly translated. The Prime Minister was grim, his jaw set. He thumped the table. "I and Mr. Eden have come all this way, although great battles are raging in Belgium and on the German frontier, to make this effort to rescue Greece from a miserable fate. . . . Very violent and unexpected troubles have arisen and we have become involved in them through doing what we believed was our duty. That duty we shall discharge inflexibly and faithfully...
Then one day when Anita was 13, fate dealt her a blow that sent her reeling. A child on the street, using a street child's dialect and detail, told her the facts of life. Totally unprepared for such reality, she was plunged into a year of adolescent hell. Disillusioned with her parents and friends, she went to church twice a day, often knelt for hours at a stretch. At length she announced that she was going to become a Carmelite, an order of nuns which requires complete seclusion. Soon afterward, at 14, she had a nervous breakdown...