Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that every classroom should become a public forum is patently absurd. To the best of my knowledge, all persons enrolled in my course have done so voluntarily. That being the case, I am afraid they will have to put up with what I have to say, even if they find it offensive or tinged with error. I shall, of course, be glad to hear from dissenters either after class or at a later time during my office hours. And I would like to assure the writer that if he can persuade me that I have sinned unduly in the direction...
...dinner in behalf of peace ... by some of the organizations listed by Birkhead. If any of the organizations are in fact Communist fronts, it should be remembered that what was sponsored was not the organization but a particular event in behalf of a worthy cause ... I challenge anyone to find any pro-Communist material in The Churchman in the 31 years I have been on the staff . . . The Churchman and its editor stand for the application of the principles of the prophets and Christianity to all social relationships. That is why we are under attack by those who wish...
...Congress' Joint Committee on the Economic Report wanted to know what was happening to the U.S. economy. Did rising unemployment and falling commodity prices mean a recession? Or would it be just a temporary letdown? Last week the committee called in economists, unionists, farm leaders and businessmen to find out. Among them was Economist A.D.H. Kaplan of the Brookings Institution, who had an economic explanation that everyone could understand...
...Payoff. Last week, the jurors filed in with their verdict. The flustered foreman, Housewife Lillian Sheehan, said: "We find for the defendant," then hastily corrected herself, "I mean the plaintiff...
...innocent gaum O'Casey woke up with a bump to find that most people were clay after all. When his proletarian plays were staged by Dublin's Abbey Theater, many critics hissed maliciously and poets looked nervously the other way. Even pioneers, O'Casey discovered, fear public opinion; even democrats get a kick out of wearing striped pants and top hats; even noble esthetes enjoy walking with one foot in the gutter. Sean was shocked to find that stately, plump Oliver St. John Gogarty surreptitiously read whodunits ; that refined Lady Gregory reveled...