Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...developed over this season into an excellent defensive end, and Pete Leavitt. The backers-up, Phil Isenberg and Paul O'Brien, also worked commendably, but the big Bruin line found it too easy to open holes in the Crimson forward wall. For a while, Howie Houston looked great on defense...
...Government has made a grave mistake in prosecuting and imprisoning the eleven bosses of the Communist Party of this great nation. The Smith Act of 1940 was never meant to be so misused as to restrict and virtually outlaw the belief and teachings of any free-thinking American political group. This action by bigoted Americans may well establish a malignant precedent of outlawing (or of purging) all individuals or groups of individuals who show disfavor with or oppose the political leaders of this land...
Here is a footnote to your article on Doctor-Missionary Curtis Hepburn [TIME, Oct. 31]. He was my great-grandfather's brother. I saw him once when...
...years later I turned up in Tokyo, an itinerant free-lance writer, broke and badly in need of a job. By chance I met a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the "great" Doctor Hepburn. I explained the relationship. The next day I was offered a position as "Professor of English Conversation" at the Imperial University . . . Wherever I went in Japan doors were opened wide for me because I was a descendant of the great Doctor...
...Thomas' time is spent investigating them. His work in New York might call for a night at the opera, followed by a Greenwich Village jam session. It includes interviews with a composer about forthcoming compositions, listening to the new records and spotting the new in music and the great in musical performances. Last summer he took a trip to the music festivals at Amsterdam and Salzburg...