Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No Beans. He was to get a good deal further. In two years as head of the education program in the Truk District (in the Navy-administered U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands*), he was to teach hundreds of island boys & girls to read & write, and to build a...
Oxford & Admiration. As Monsieur X, Antonin Besse had explained last fall, in part, why he had given so much to Oxford. No Oxford man himself, he had admired Oxonians as acquaintances and employees, wanted more young men trained as they had been. Besse has not yet explained one further mystery...
Softening Spots. Further drops in the cost of living promised to ease the wage pressure still more. The average retail drop in the price of meat since last September's peak, said the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers, was estimated between 15 and 20%. Packers were keeping their...
Last week, Laurance Rockefeller, who meanwhile had upped the stake of himself and his brothers in McDonnell to $400,000 and one-fifth voting interest, had further proof that his gamble had paid off. In Muroc, Calif., McDonnell gave the public its first look at the Voodoo, a single-seater...
In the depression '30s, Hungary-born Edward Newhouse wrote a leftish novel, You Can't Sleep Here, that led one critic to hail him as "the proletarian Hemingway." Two years later, his story of a Communist organizer (This Is Your Day) further established his skill-and his slant...