Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Corps, the Americans have also launched a program to educate adults-a 19-lesson course, with films, lectures and discussion groups. It meets for two hours twice a week, covers every field of postwar reform from taxes and public health to trade unionism and the new constitution. Given in seventh-grade language, it is designed to teach 30 million adults, in the next five years, "the principles of democracy which everyone can understand...
...granted that the students should be concerned with the activities of the group that represents then--and the Council is based on this principle--and given student indifference to the Council, we are faced with a need for change...
Successful candidates will be promoted to $2880 after the first six months period, and later to $3240. Outstanding interns will be given an opportunity for a permanent appointment in the Department of State...
...Tribune, for example, claimed that a Canadian communist "was given a job with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, which was headed by Archibald MacLeish, before Julian Huxley, former London zoo keeper, took it over...
...Winthrop Sargent prize, awarded for excellence in languages and literatures, will give Dorius a stipend of $150, while Strauss and Van Teslaar will receive $100 and $50 respectively from the Potter Prizes, given in the field of Comparative Literature...