Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yard--I think I might be looking at our nation's next president." These, difficult to believe, were words uttered by a Radcliffe girl--one of the twenty-four ex-servicewomen now collecting their $65 a month, filling out book authorizations, and discussing "the veteran's problem" with more grace and less publicity than their Harvard counterparts...
...strongest among farmers, where the Liberals were losing popularity. And in keeping the CCF pleased, the Liberals would probably lose the rest of the country. Said the Ottawa Journal, "What we face ... is the danger involved in a dying government which can prolong its life only by the grace of the CCF-by progressive surrender to socialism...
...Street headquarters in midafternoon, has supper sent up from the office canteen. He directs the brief 5 o'clock news conference, assigns the leaders, manages to turn out one long leader himself each week. He is careful to see that the Guardian's news is displayed with grace and readability, but has no intention of putting news on the ad-covered front page. "We think that what the hasty reader loses," he says, "the careful reader gains from a nicer inside make...
...Radcliffe girl with her pile of books has increased the confusion in already crowded classrooms. She has taken with a minimum of mumbling the classroom changes at the beginning of each term, although she occasionally wonders whether she is attending the Peripatetic School or Harvard University. With good grace she has given up Widener for the basement of Memorial Chapel, and for the most part she obeys the order to "sit in a lady-like manner" on the steps of that building. She ignores the vertical stares of Harvard veterans although she is tempted to retaliate in kind...
...speech. He told them: "It is sometimes alleged-not without some foundation in the past history of the culture-conflict of the Negro in the New World-that Negroes do not wish to be ministered to by priests of their own race. ... To say that in this year of grace and achievement, 1946, is ... a most vicious form of propaganda.. . . The business of salvation is not a racial enterprise. Christianity is an interracial economy in the mystical body of Christ...