Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well done" for your Aug. 25 report on the impressions of the visiting Soviet students. Although they were wrong many times in their analyses of situations here, they were not wrong in remarking on how little we know about the U.S.S.R...
...Negro in effigy on the school flagpole. The white hoodlums proclaimed a school strike, sent off a telegram to Governor Faubus: IN ORDER TO STAY INTEGRATION WE NEED YOUR HELP. Said Faubus, in theory a state Governor with police powers to dispel unlawful assemblies: "I don't know what to do about the Van Buren situation. I'll have to check into it." And although the great majority of Van Buren's white children ignored the strike call and went to school, it was the hoodlums who won. Number of Negroes attending Van Buren on the third...
...report? Experts on both sides of the border were puzzled to answer. Despite Dr. Murray's standing as a surgeon, he has little background in immunology. And some immunologists said flatly that his method would not work. U.S. critics called Dr. Murray's report superficial, wanted to know why it covered only 91 cases though he had begun treatment on 233. They also wanted many more details than he had supplied to be sure that all patients had been in the hopeless state that he asserted, and that their improvement could not be due to chance or delayed...
...brief period of study with Ravel in France only purified his English idiom, resulting in the moving Housman song cycle On Wenlock Edge. His rare ventures into modernist techniques left him uncertain; after the first performance of his war-troubled (1935) Symphony No. 4, he said, "I do not know whether I like it,-but it is what I meant." Several years later, after conducting it himself, he revised his opinion: "Well, gentlemen, if that's modern music, you can have...
...Vermeer Last Supper that Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans in 1947 identified as having been painted by Art Forger Hans van Meegeren (TIME, July 30, 1945 et seq.). The master faker's masterpiece is currently stored in the basement of the museum that Rotterdamers will henceforth know as the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum...