Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Read with interest your June 3 article concerning Protestants and the Church of Scotland in the early 17th century. Jenny Geddes threw that "cutty stool" towards the head of my distant, illustrious relative, Dean James Hanna, who was reading the Collect for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. It was July 23, 1637, and the people in St. Giles excitedly awaited the service book, which had been revised and "stamped" by Archbishops Laud and Wren. Its sponsors chose the most explosive hour possible. Thus, the infamous Jenny hurled the stool (see cut) and cried: "How dare you to say 'mass...
...President vigorously denied that the U.S. was "shooting from the hip" in enunciating its disarmament policy. But he gave the impression, as the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout pointed out, of "a conscientious man, eager to do what is in humanity's highest interest, reaffirming his pledge to go ahead with a cessation of atomic tests, but at the same time weighing the possible loss to mankind of losing the peaceful knowledge which such tests might bring." It was an impression of confusion, too, but it left no confusion about Ike's basic...
Three weeks ago the legal battle ended; Joanne had won $190,000 in insurance and jewelry. Said a Swiss friend: "She seemed relieved that it was all over. She was a kind girl, with a vivid interest in people and things. All she needed was a man who could really lead her." But Joanne had only Mother, and the lonely isolation (Joanne spoke no French or German) of her Swiss villa had only intensified her unhappiness. Over the months her drug intake increased alarmingly-sleeping pills to stop her "headaches," Dexedrine to wake her up, reducing pills to curb...
...remarked that he hoped Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell would live "to enjoy this slight addition to his salary for very many years to come." Just as chummily, Gaitskell, who hopes to trade places with Macmillan some day, replied: "I cannot forbear from reminding the Prime Minister of his great interest in the salary of the Leader of the Opposition...
...fear that such a move would demoralize the entire Government bond market by depressing lower-paying issues, others argue that the Treasury needs strong medicine to solve its problems. Still another idea is to float a convertible bond. The U.S. Treasury could issue a convertible bond at 4% interest, for example, give investors the option of either cashing it in after one year, or of converting it into a longterm, twelve-year bond paying 4%. Thus investors would have an incentive to buy, since if interest rates showed signs of turning down, bond holders could convert into a longterm, good...