Word: handed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president made a plea to the Annex student body to devote four full years to higher education. One hundred thirty-eight 'Cliffe students left school, primarily for marriage, during the past year. He commented that the academic mortality rate on the other hand was exceptionally low, averaging...
These demonstrations of affection greatly bolster Franco's hand in dealing with his own people and with the outside world. Although President Truman and the State Department disclaim all responsibility for such overtures, a goodly number of Congressmen and military leaders backs cooperation with Spain for various strategic, economic, and religious reasons. Motions to include Spain in ECA and the arms program mustered considerable Congressional support...
...career, to maintain the delicate balance between discipline and affability--taking refuge in a severity which was lightened only by dry puns. The climax occurs when a member of his alienated Greek class presents him, on his retirement, with a copy of Browning version of the "Agamemnon"--second hand--inscribed with a tender quote from Aeschulus. The master breaks into tears and later reveals his unrequitted attempts at winning the affection of his classes and his sexually unsatisfied wife...
...regular hawkers will be on hand both morning and afternoon, with armfuls of free literature and dotted lines...
...other hand we might have been satisfied if the IUS, which was supposed to be a 'progressive, antifascist, democratic organization' would have helped the Spanish students in their underground struggle against Franco...