Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seriously worked up about that matter. Irish tempers, in fact, had simmered down a good deal since the old days. It might even happen, now that they had got rid of the Black & Tans for good, that the Irish might get to be friends with the British. To his former subjects, the King sent a touching message. "I pray that every blessing may be with you today and in the future," said His Majesty. "God Save the King" sang Anne Maggie Crowley, a Dublin newsvendor, as she elbowed her way through the crowds, carrying a scribbled poster: "King George recognizes...
Paris was as gay as ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...
...Cancer Society, which supports Huggins' work ($74,485 last year, $89,600 this year), enthusiastically said that the test had "great value" and could be made in any clinical laboratory. Dr. Shields Warren, director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine, and a former president of the association, called it "probably the greatest single advance ever made in the fight against cancer." Dr. Cameron promptly ordered 500 reprints of the Huggins report for distribution to clinics...
There was nothing unusual about the 127 young men, except one thing. Their entire college education had consisted of studying the 100 Great Books. They were the alumni of tiny (present enrollment: 231) St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., where twelve years ago a former University of Chicago professor had started a small academic revolution...
...present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there is the Churchill whose mind remembers Virgil when a bomb strikes London's Carlton Club, rendezvous of generations of Conservative politicians. Writes Churchill: "Mr. Quentin Hogg . . . carried his father, a former Lord Chancellor, on his shoulders from the wreck, as Aeneas had borne Pater Anchises from the ruins of Troy...