Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segregation that "interferes with the citizen's equality of opportunity in both the economic and the political fields" is "morally wrong"-a judgment that seemed to carry the President slightly beyond his previous down-the-middle position that his job is to enforce the law of the land without making moral pronouncements...
...summary, Harvard's multiple virtues are inspiring, and they converge to form a spiritual reservoir in the pedagogue's life--a well from which he may draw cool water when he dwells in an arid land...
...general public is given a long (149-minute) look into the never-never land behind convent walls in the film version of Kathryn Hulme's best seller, The Nun's Story, now showing at the Metropolitan. To this reviewer the film appears as the most reverent and sensitive interpretation of Roman Catholic convent life yet given movie-goers. It towers above those stereotyped Roman Catholic nuns and priests perpetuated in Going My Way and Come to the Stable. It would be no surprise if Audrey Hepburn, who plays Sister Luke, and director Fred Zinnemann were given Academy Awards for their...
...first companies to utilize the area's resident brainpower is now big, well-known and a darling of Wall Street: Polaroid. Edwin Herbert Land, 50, the founder-president who left Harvard to work on his first polarized light project in 1926 and later invented the Polaroid Land camera, actively cultivates an academic atmosphere in the plants. Every year he hires a few Smith or Wellesley girls for laboratory work, considers them a prime source of fresh ideas. Several have made notable contributions to Polaroid's quick photography. "Everyone," says Land, "whether he is a worker on the assembly...
...Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric. An elegiac novel by a fine Yugoslav writer distills 300 years of his land's history...