Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left M.I.T. for a teaching job that paid better-$2,000 a year-at Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University in Halifax. When he arrived in Halifax, aged 22, he was almost broke and had to borrow $100 to tide him over until his first payday. One of his colleagues recalls: "He was a typical good young M.I.T. graduate-vital, clean-cut, tireless, very, very fit, and very, very pleasant." He was also a good teacher...
Sneak Preview. In Halifax, N.S., constables nabbed Escaped Prisoner Eric Topple in the Armview Theater while he was watching a showing of They Got Me Covered...
Once again, Oxford bristled with protests. The vice chancellor of the University, the mayor of the town, and the chairman of the county council composed a joint letter to the Times. Lord Halifax, Lord Bledisloe, Lord. Pakenham and Lord Samuel signed another. The whole affair, said their lordships, was "intolerable." The city council's planning committee echoed the theme: the company's plan "ought never to have been made and should be disposed of summarily...
...free world so vitally depends. . . If in 1914 Germany had been confronted at the outset with an unbreakable association of Britain, her Commonwealth and the United States, built on the conviction that what affects one party to the association immediately affects all, would that war ever have happened?" Halifax thought not -nor would Hitler have invaded Poland...
...This simile may require some explanation in Halifax's country. Poison ivy does not grow wild in Europe, although the Russians have cultivated some poison ivy plants in the famed Nikitsky Botanic Gardens near Yalta...