Word: layings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than just get along. He kept plugging for better management of the British mines. He helped revise the convertibility provisions of the British loan. He had already helped lay down the occupation policy for Germany as a special adviser to General Lucius Clay in 1945. As much as any man, he did the spadework for the new U.S. policy in Germany (by talking France into raising the level of industry; by recommending increased U.S. supervision in the Ruhr in return for more U.S. dollars...
Flushing Meadow was a suburban pastoral of cold wintry sunlight and bare lonely trees swaying in a fitful wind. The building which housed the world's town meeting lay strangely isolated in the brownish-green emptiness of dead lawns. Inside, the modernistic public lobby was filled with people who had come for a quick look at history before the Second General Assembly of the United Nations adjourned. A group of children clustered around a counter as excitedly as though it displayed candy and comics rather than U.N. literature. A tall, blond boy jumped up & down. "Sammy," he cried, "Sammy...
...This is the third of a series of editorials in which the CRIMSON is undertaking an examination of undergraduate life at Harvard. The series will lay special emphasis on the effect of the academic and social organization of the College on the individual student. Early editorials in the series will attempt to reveal the situation as it exists, not to reach conclusions or to recommend changes. Later editorials will view the picture as a whole and take a definite stand on problems that have been raised...
Most exciting to archeologists is the great age of the camp sites. The artifacts were imbedded in a layer of "old soil." Above them lay many, feet of wind-deposited material (loess), the result of great dust storms associated with the last (Mankato) glacial advance, 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Apparently man reached Nebraska early enough to feel the effect of ice when it last crept toward his hunting grounds...
...than any other statesman of his time, and that it was too late to find a substitute; that I understood his wanting to retire to Hyde Park to enjoy the freedom of private citizenship, but that I did not think that was good enough in the dangerous days that lay ahead. He looked wan and tired, and it hurt me to say what I had to say. ..." Roosevelt never told him he was going to appoint him Ambassador. A few days later Winant read the news in the papers...