Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normal smoothness, and education in particular is not rolling in gold. We are warned by college presidents that if the tax payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund to keep the University going. Then Harvard bows, pushes a $10,000 chair under our bottom and says, "Pray, make yourself comfortable...
...coverage TIME's Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. A fortnight ago the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history heard the result with great pleasure...
Last week when Boeing employees voted to choose a bargaining agent, the aero mechanics won, 8,107 to 4,127. Dave Beck, in his own home town, had taken the worst licking of his zooming career...
...hopped out of the Ford, opened the trailer door, set the coffee pot on the butane stove in the pint-sized kitchen, spread farm literature across his "parlor" table, and rigged a microphone out front. Hugo Sims, youngest man in the U.S. House of Representatives, last week was "at home" to his constituents of Cameron (pop. 624), as he would be in every one of the 150 cities, towns and hamlets of his state's Second District before Congress reconvened in January...
...said nothing about his wartime exploits as a paratroop officer, when he led a patrol behind the German-line near Arnhem, returning with 32 prisoners and without a scratch. Mostly he told the people about the issues of the 81st Congress, and how to apply for a Farmers Home Administration loan, wound up offering to send a weekly news digest from Washington...