Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold war gets warmer, there follows a drop of interest in improving social conditions, he claimed; and as it grows cooler, more attention is paid to the civil rights question...
...Rapaport got together with William D. Weeks '49, a former Student Council president, who had a family interest in city and state politics, to form the Boston Students Civic Association. That name remained a part of the organization only until the group decided that Hynes was to be the man they would back for mayor. Then it became the Students with Hynes for Better Government a name which committed the group definitely for Hynes and left the Civic Association name for future...
...order to encourage interest in the annual Christmas story contest, $25 will be awarded the prize winning manuscript. Another change in the Christmas program will be the revival of the candle-light service in Christ Chapel prior to the refreshments and entertainment...
Harriman attributed this loss to the declining interest shown in the Testament since the war. He pointed out that this lack of interest in a House yearbook had resulted in a decline in the Testament's literary and photographic quality...
...sale this week at public auction will go his studios at Shepherd's Bush and Islington. Rank, who could use the money, hopes that they will be knocked down for not less than ?250,000, possibly to BBC's television division. (The studios are too antiquated to interest U.S. moviemakers in England.) Of the four studios which will be left to Rank, two are shut tight and two are operating at only half their capacity. Last week, Rank and his subsidiaries had just four productions before the cameras, compared with ten a year ago. An actor at liberty...