Word: lated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History to Make. There was general agreement that this court was above average. What this really meant was that there were above average justices on it. The absence of a strong disciplinarian like the late Chief Justice Hughes contributed to the haggling among the justices; so did the ever-growing complexity of the problems which they were called upon to solve...
...elsewhere came a motley group of anti-Kuomintang fellow travelers. The Communist masters dubbed them "democratic personages," decked them in cool blue summer uniforms, then directed them to a preparatory conference for a "people's congress" and "coalition government." Best guess as to the Red timetable: by late August the "New Democracy" would be ready for formal launching and a bid for the world's diplomatic recognition...
...Penn State 25. The day's outstanding individual performance: a 56-ft.-1½-in. heave of the shot by Yale's Jim Fuchs, who is also a pretty good halfback in season; Fuchs's toss broke the N.C.A.A. record of another footballer-shot putter, the late Al Blozis of Georgetown, by one inch...
Although Charlie de Bretteville grew up surrounded by Spreckelses (his aunt married the late Adolph B. Spreckels, Claus's son), he picked up none of their playboy antics. A sharp dresser with an even sharper golf game (the low 70s), De Bretteville was a varsity swimmer and golfer at Stanford, spent a year at the Harvard Business
...succeed the late A. P. Giannini on the 25-member board of directors of his Bank of America, the directors last week picked slim, dark-eyed, olive-skinned Mrs. Claire Giannini Hoffman, 44, A.P.'s only daughter, longtime confidante and an executor of his $480,000 estate...