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For the first time since the dying days of World War I, Canada's Parliament met in secret session. For six hours and 20 minutes it discussed the biggest problem in Canadian life: Is Canada still tied to Mother Britain's empire strings, or is Canada a grown...
A kind of grown-up version of the brat in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Evelyn is no less fiendish but much less frightening. In fact, so much effort is lavished on what she does, and so little on how cleverly she does it, that she...
> In character and personality Progressive pupils surpassed their fellows. They had a better attitude toward their responsibilities as citizens, understood the grown-up world better, excelled in cooperativeness, poise, selfdiscipline, creative ability, scientific outlook.
The tall Swede, looking like a grown-up Boy Scout on a jamboree, stood before a scarred building in Sortavala and laughed delightedly. Prince Gustaf Adolf, 35, who will one day be Sweden's King if his longevous royal grandfather (83) and father (60) die in time, was on...
Dr. Lieberman found that 19th-Century youngsters were prone to ponder morosely on such subjects as Hypocrisy, Temptation, Time, Death. Their poetic style, though reflective and unhurried, was stiff, conventional, smacked of grown-up inspiration. Far from conventional were the poems that Dr. Lieberman collected from classrooms of his pupils...