Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after seven anxious years, the Bel was barely swinging. Import restrictions had shrunk its British market. To square garrulous Editor Peadar O'Donnell, one time schoolmaster in County Donegal there seemed but one way out. He would go to the U.S. and raise some money...
Masterpiece is hardly a strong enough word to describe this French import. Other Gallie efforts have been praised highly in the last decade, but none of them can possibly match the broad scope and multiple perfections of "Les Enfants," a product of the German Occupation which contains, among other things, a notable expression of the tragedy of spiritual frustration and isolation...
Just what individuals make up the student body is the first matter of import. The Harvard degree may be meaningful to an applicant in social, intellectual, or commercial ways. The Committee on Admissions has solved its problem of choice by compromise. While emphasizing the "democratization" of the College, the committee continues to admit a large body of men from a small number of private schools. These men, as has been pointed out, make generous alumni, and they therefore perform a valuable function while Harvard remains a privately endowed institution. Nonetheless the Admissions Committee should continue to work toward the most...
When they went on sale at a small shop next door to a Russian headquarters building, the Communist daily, Volks-stimme, huffed: "Bananas, yet! Apparently there are no more important foodstuffs we can import against our industrial goods. Bananas...
...Paris, where the 16 Marshall-Plan nations had created an Organization for European Economic Cooperation, a Committee on Methods worked on import needs, scheduled a report to OEEC's Council on May 10. German experts arrived to advise on meshing Western Germany into the European economy...