Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Student Council has acted promptly in appointing a special committee and giving it the powers necessary for effective work. Already plans are being made to initiate a three fold program. The Committee has appealed to all students and employees of the dining halls to cooperate in eliminating food waste...
Army to move out of Iran on May 6. Surely there could be no further objection, since Iran herself now made the same request ("The Iranian Government has complete confidence in the Soviet Government and, for this reason, withdraws its complaint").
Under First Mate F. Henry Haas, the Ada Rehan staggered on. At an Arabian port the crew refused to serve further under Haas, but were at last won over. In Khorramshahr, Haas went ashore, came back with a beer-drinking baboon. When the crew tried to cut down the baboon...
The Russian Church counted further gains. Izvestia now prints the hierarchy's pastoral literature, which is obligingly directed not against sin but against non-Communist politics. Several priests were chosen in the recent election to sit in the two Chambers of the Supreme Soviet.
Actors. The first and least reprehensible of these categories are the actors. Here we find nothing but amateurs. . . . Metamorphosis, the very essence of histrionic art, is utterly foreign to these actors. [They] do not realize that they are leading the brilliant but short lives of dazzling butterflies. . . . The few really...