Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 24 interim report to the public Committee Chairman Saltonstall cast official doubt on the plan with the statement that investigation had disclosed "these memorials could not be constructed except for a sum considerably above" the specified $750,000 limit of a memorial fund-raising drive. The latter "ceiling" was alleged to stem from the concurrent existence of a $90,000,000 all-University drive for general endowment...
...Oxnam was bishop of the Boston area. There he had one notable success - persuading Cardinal O'Connell to sign a joint statement with him condemning the 1942-43 wave of anti-Semitism in Boston-and one small failure, in his drive for ever-increasing personal efficiency. The latter was his scheme for hooking a dictation machine, to his car battery, so that he could park at spare moments and dash off a few letters. After finding himself marooned a few times with a dead battery, he abandoned the experiment. But he was the first bishop in the area...
...Platz was the vortex of battle. One morning a Soviet jeep with five soldiers aboard shot out from the Russian side of the square, raced across it, darted ten yards up the Potsdamerstrasse in the British sector. Two soldiers jumped out; one grabbed a U.S. newsreel cameraman, but the latter wrenched free and escaped. The other Russian chased a German photographer several yards farther up the street. He seemed ready to level his rifle and fire. A British major standing nearby, trim in his Black Watch uniform, put his hand on his pistol holster. The pursuing Russian stopped and walked...
...bedrock to the brilliant flights of the Emersonian era, and towards the final settling in the dreary marshes of the Mayor Curley epoch. The book ends on "the late George Apley's" symptomatic, harassed query about "a certain doctor named Sigmund Freud," who seemed to proper Bostonians a latter-day Emblem of Hell...
...established celebrities-Billy Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Bette Davis, Gloria Baker, Ruth Moffett, et al.-with whom he was seen in public; and 2) the young, eager and not too prudish unknowns with whom he was almost never seen in public. Hughes has a harsh word for the latter: he calls them "crows." But even from them he fears a rebuff. It is part of Meyer's job to see that the green light is up before Hughes ever appears on the scene...