Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After bestowing this benign "Well done," Cripps wagged a grandfatherly finger. Even if British production reaches his target-140% of the prewar level-the trading deficit with the U.S. will be running at about $1 billion a year. Without Marshall Plan aid, he warned, Britain's dollars and expendable...
A further sampling of France's 1,000,000 Communists showed them 64% atheistic, 17% believers, and 19% agnostic.
Four days later, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson drawled out the court's unanimous decision, which seemed to go further than the Gaines rule. Said Vinson: "[Ada Sipuel] is entitled to secure legal education afforded by a state institution. [Oklahoma] must provide it for her . . . and provide it as...
The Eternal Return (Paulve; Discina). The medieval bards sang of Tristan and Iseult as huge, cloudy symbols of high romance; later storytellers (Swinburne, Wagner, Tennyson, E. A. Robinson et al.) further enriched (or corrupted) the tale with new ideas and idioms. Now the French poet-moviemaker, Jean Cocteau, has handsomely...
Such a guinea pig, of course, would have to have an air of freshman-like innocence and a convincingly slight knowledge of nineteenth-century European history, so I set to work at once. The letter which Cramer had sent to a College club was necessarily vague, so the first stop...