Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Aug. 22 article on José Ortega y Gasset's description of the evolution of art was read with interest. [But] I am afraid you adopt too much of a defeatist attitude in your last sentence: "It looked as if modern art must be the end of the line...
...American living abroad, I read with great interest . . . the suggestions of Senator H. Alexander Smith that Finland utilize future war debt payments for exchange scholarships for students and technicians [TIME...
...More 'U.S. investment in the sterling area, particularly Point Four colonial development. Since the defense costs and dollar deficits of Egypt, India and Southeast Asia are a drain on the British economy, the U.S. might be asked to share the burden in the general interest of Middle and Far Eastern security...
...native village. The peasants complained that Abate stole money orders which relatives in America sent.them. One day, Giuliano strode into the post office and coolly bumped off Postmaster Abate, oppressor of the poor. The peasants complained about the prices Giuseppe Terranova charged for flour, shoes and soap, and the interest he charged on loans. Giuliano decided to enforce price control; he led Terranova into Montelepre's piazza, read out a formal death sentence and shot...
...spite of himself. Before joining the government in 1941, he was one of the Dominion's top corporation lawyers, a man who started as a junior partner in a Quebec law firm at $50 a month and steadily built his earnings to nearly $50,000 a year. His only interests along the way had been the law and his family. A new interest was injected one night in 1941 by a long-distance call from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who asked St. Laurent to come to Ottawa to discuss "an urgent matter." Next day, St. Laurent was asked...