Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning to his discussion of economic barriers to education after high school, he then listed some of the figures and percentages illustrating the increasing curve in education after secondary school. An all time high of 50 percent of high school graduates are new enrolled as collage freshman, and Conant felt sure the figure would continue to mount as America woke up to her scholastic responsibilities...
George Marshall asked Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman how they felt about letting Franco into U.N. Both were opposed. Marshall agreed that the U.S. would not support the Latin American move for Spain's U.N. membership. The U.S., however, would back repeal of the 1946 resolution-if someone else proposed it. It would also back Spain for membership in U.N.'s non-political affiliates, such as the International Telecommunications Union...
Larger audiences were hardly better. Bauer remembers being unnerved at one U.S. concert by a vendor's cries of "Peanuts! Popcorn!" Once, in Boston, he suddenly felt that no one was listening to him: the audience had spotted Paderewski in the hall. Another time, on his way to the concert, he was accosted by a Salvation Army lassie who wanted him to give it all up. "Don't do it, brother!" she cried. "Don't lead those poor people into sin . . . with the arts of Satan...
...sort of things Dickstein had had in mind. And when Dies took a merely routine wallop at the German-American Bund, and produced an American Federation of Labor man who testified that Communists were ensconced in both the CIO and the federal government, Dickstein gave vent to some heart-felt criticism...
...late last night, and the home-bound student felt no kindness towards the Counecticut trooper who had so discourteously whistled him down for doing 85 on the monotonous marches of the Merritt Parkway...