Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indo-China does not want the French, with or without former Emperor Bao Dai. Nehru regards Bao Dai as a puppet of the French, and he would rather take a reluctant chance on Communist Ho Chi Minh than back the French. But, under British and American persuasion, Delhi is keeping mum about Indo-China...
...Numbers. The trouble is, says the FORUM, that New York makes no provision for changes in population. Most of its schools are planned by the Board of Education's Construction Bureau, which sticks by its oldtime architects and methods. As one former bureau architect put it: "When a program for a new school came through, we used to riffle through the drawers, find something that looked suitable, and accomplish the tremendous design job of changing the numbers on the old plan...
...British had only gotten around to creating a national company after Diaghilev's death (1929), though ballet had been a London rage since the 18th Century. Under the stern direction of a tiny Irish-born former Diaghilev dancer named Ninette de Valois, they had modeled their company after the classical Russian patterns. But in 20 years, it had become as British as meat...
...adopted agreement over fixed parity was scrapped. This had appeared at first to be a House victory, but now there is some question as to which side will come out on top. The aim of a parity program is to give farmers a stable purchasing power, based on some former period of prosperity. The House plan would determine such a period and then maintain it as the price base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks are fighting to hold the states they won in 1948, while...
Professor John Finch of Dartmouth College, the Executive Director of the Seminar, will lead the money raising campaign. He will be assisted in the United States by past and present members of the Seminar faculty and staff. Former students will seek financial support for the Seminar in England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland, and Belgium...