Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to put the new order into effect. Montreal's Archbishop Paul-Emile Léger, said to be slated to be Canada's next cardinal, forbade priests in his archdiocese to participate in any Rotary or "neutral" club, explained: "It is not up to me to interpret the Pope's announcements. When the Pope speaks, Catholics have nothing else to do but accept his directives...
Meanwhile, local draft boards have the power and often the inclination to interpret the general rules their own way. Furthermore, once a man is called for his physical examination, even though he is to be deferred, his chance of enlisting in a service of his own choice vanishes. Before the Christmas holidays, campus advisers everywhere were being asked the same questions: Should I volunteer? Sit tight? Change to a technical or science course...
...shows as THE MARCH OF TIME and NBC's Voices and Events; it has frankly borrowed from the techniques of TIME and the I Can Hear It Now record albums created by Edward Murrow and Writer Fred Friendly. With their new show, Murrow & Friendly hope to report and interpret the news with "the actual sound of history in the making...
Though the first show did little to illumine or interpret the news, it managed to move quickly and interestingly from event to event. Murrow, who hopes the first few programs will serve as a shakedown cruise, says: "It's something you have to worry over, and make your mistakes and get some informed criticism...
...downward pull and shows only the small horizontal pull toward the magnetic pole. The compass does not point north, of course. Since the magnetic pole is many miles south of the geographical North Pole, the compass often points almost south. But newly revised magnetic charts allow the navigators to interpret such weird readings accurately...