Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Ottawa's 3,000 regular students (one-third English speaking, two-thirds French) and its staff (125 Oblate fathers, 21 nuns, 147 lay teachers) crowded on to the campus for the university's centenary. They put on a pageant, handed out honorary degrees to ten dignitaries, learned that Pope Pius XII had conferred an apostolic benediction on students and staff. They listened to tributes from visitors, heard Dr. Robert Wallace, principal of Queen's University in Kingston, say: "There are clearly two different philosophies of education in Canada . . . They rest partly in religious exclusiveness...
Last summer, after the Greek army's victory in the Grammos Mountains, it looked as though the guerrilla power was broken and that only a mopping-up process lay ahead. This month, re-equipped by Greece's Communist neighbors, the guerrillas made a startling comeback by attacking government positions in the Vitsi Mountains (TIME, Oct. 11). The Greek army, which had heroically sustained casualties up to 13% in the Grammos operation, had little appetite for the Vitsi campaign. The guerrillas had a fresh, seemingly unlimited supply of land mines which they were using to the full; World...
Nineteen Nights. After the15th day he was conscious of little but pain and cold. He lay motionless, unable to crawl to water. He did not know that Air Force planes had sighted the wreckage, and had dropped food and medical supplies only 175 yards from him. On the 19th night, when a rescue party stumbled past within 20 feet of him, he could not make himself heard...
...federal cabinet. Aware that Montel's deportation might set off a political uproar in Quebec, where, as in the case of De Bernonville, the collaborator could be portrayed as a victim of anticlerical Communists in postwar France, the federal cabinet decided to follow Bre'r Rabbit and "lay...
...final works, rescued from the obscurity of his Riverdale attic, were the hits of last week's show. Made mostly in plaster or papier-mâché (a mixture of paste and paper pulp), they ranged from life-size figures to tiny dolls. Proof of his brilliance lay in the fact that the tiny ones, of which he did hundreds, had a monumental quality. With their archaic smiles, compactness and classic grace of pose, they looked like quick sketches for heroic statues. But that was not Nadelman's notion in modeling them : he had hoped to take...