Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GREAT BRITAIN The Conservative
Along with the doves, there was a great program for furbishing up the state buildings, the Russian embassy, the swank Bristol hotel; scaffolds lined the buildings on Unter den Linden...
Leggy Cinemactress Ava Gardner (The Great Sinner), whose first husband was Mickey Rooney and second was Artie Shaw, now felt up to the esthetic side of marriage. "I've grown up," said she. "I used to think books were only good for doorstops. Then I read one and found it habit forming. Now I read all the time. Same with music. I still like pop tunes but I'm getting to be a longhair too. A few years ago I thought anybody who liked to listen to symphonies wore long underwear...
There, for 25 francs (7?) admission, stand "the shoeless ones"-the great middle-class portion of the crowd which is popularly supposed to bet its shoes and go home barefoot. When a start is bad or a favorite jostled, the crowd has been known to set fire to the beer stands dotting the infield, pull the pari-mutuel booths up by the roots and send the swells across the track fleeing...
...took a doctorate in philosophy at the University of London. When Sweet Briar found her, she was an associate dean at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass. In her three years at Sweet Briar, she held fast to her rule that "the administration of a college is the servant of great teaching." She herself taught a course in the philosophy of religion, spent her days wrestling with a shrinking budget and dictating letters "anyplace and anywhere, even under the dryer when I get there...