Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four of the 29 surviving soldiers of the Confederate Army tramped into Little Rock, Ark. last week for their 59th annual reunion, chortled in high glee over a new explanation for the surrender at Appomattox. The story: that General Robert E. Lee handed his sword and hat to General U.S. Grant because he took him to be the doorman. Then, with a sidelong glance at the last survivors of the G.A.R., who had held their last encampment four weeks ago, they decided to keep meeting each year "as long as there are two of us able to meet...
...brief look at the season totals for 1948 shows the worth of Lefty James' high speed football, and it is good to note that the team which compiled these records is virtually the same team Harvard plays in the Stadium this afternoon...
Page entered the last half inning with a three run lead, and once again a Coleman insurance run proved necessary. With none out, Olmo drove a homer into the left field stands. Page disposed of Snider easily, but Roy Campanella lofted a high fly which just cleared the top of the left field wall to make the score...
...Spellman's polemic vigor has been matched by the high glee of the thousands of big and little men who have reaffirmed, for all the world to know, their support of the First Amendment. "We must have separation of the Church and State," they cry--entirely ignoring the finer points of the dispute...
...transcript of her speech, the chairman stated that "scarcely have the war drums died down...while peace-loving countries are busily planning, working, and rebuilding their social order, there are those who are plotting further exploitation and oppression. Foremost among them are the banks and trusts--the high financiers, monopolists, imperialists of America...Through the Marshall Plan they dump their produce on the needy peoples of the world...through the guise of being champions of world democracy they dictate the political policies of the participating countries." She went on to cite the example of the Soviet Union, the "New People...