Word: fining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stay. Others remained after forming a wartime attachment for the country and its people. But most hope to start small businesses and enjoy Canada's life. The standard of living is slightly lower (just behind the U.S.), and many prices are higher, but the easy accessibility of fine hunting and fishing makes up for a lot. "They figure they'll live longer. The rat race isn't as bad as back home," explains one official...
This time it was going to be different, Dudley thought as he walked across the Weeks Footbridge with his roommate. I know the fine art of mixing at mixers, he repeated to himself. He bid his roommate goodbye and thanked him for walking him across the bridge. Dudley always had an uneasy feeling going over that bridge alone at night; but his roommate was a big guy, played House football. Yessir, thought Dudley, after that Weeks Bridge, it's no sweat...
...statue of Lloyd Warner will be awarded to anyone who can tell the lower-middle from the working class without a scorecard.) In this second offering of the pre-season season at the Charles Playhouse (the season opens later this month), a group of good actors, capable of many fine strokes and perfectly caught inflections, miss just often enough to prevent our believing in the Brooklyn waterfront tenement they are trying to create...
...courses, out of a total of 50 undergraduate offerings, seems hardly a fair ratio considering the importance of this period. Avid Egyptophiles can learn about the art of Karnak and Tutankamon's tomb next year in Fine Arts 131, but they cannot discover the history of the various dynasties. Students of Minoan or Cretan developments have only Professor Hanfmann's course in Aegean archaeology--next year--without a corresponding History course...
Although, as some of Prime Minister Macmillan's detractors have observed, a fine, un-English summer and the news of an impending addition to the royal family have conspired to help the Conservatives, there remain sound reasons for Macmillan's success. The first is prosperity. With full employment, a stable pound, lowered taxes, increased social services and the healthiest export-import situation in this century, most of England is enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Another helpful issue was foreign affairs. Despite the electoral liability, especially in Scotland, of recent abuses of power in Kenya and Nyasaland, Macmillan's leadership in trying...