Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Does a college education warp a woman's attitude toward marriage?" is the subject of a preliminary debate to be given at Hillel House at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Morris J. Wexler 1L is on the affirmative, and Ailene S. Pressman '51 of Radcliffe is on the negative side...
...Beatrice Lillie was the funniest woman on the English-speaking stage. This rather sweeping pronouncement has never been challenged and, indeed, could here be extended to "the funniest woman in the world" but for this writer's early memory of a great uncle who, after a few drinks, was given to recalling in glorious terms a little entertainer in Kenya who was once very funny with her Swahili monologues. In case this worthy woman is still alive, and out of respect to my uncle, I'll only go so far as to say that there is no man or woman...
...result of the Court decision is that Congress definitely has the right to dispose of the land as it sees fit. Some interesting legal controversy has, however, arisen outside the government. Since this land was not given to California in its original land grant and since the federal government does not own it, the land is claimed by 21 bands of California Indians. But the government is continuing its well established policy of ignoring Indian demands...
...highest value, of far higher value than literature, but it belongs to a different world ... As a novelist, I must be allowed to write from the point of view of the black square as well as of the white: doubt and even denial must be given their chance of self-expression, or how is one freer than the Leningrad group...
Heirloom. In Newark, Ohio, James E. Shrider, pleading guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, explained that the butcher knife was merely a keepsake, given to him by his grandmother...