Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Service Fund, International Student Service, "Junior Year Abroad", and the Institute for International Education has been called for specifically. Furthermore NSA has secured a seat on the United States commission for UNESCO (international commission chairman Robert Smith 1G will occupy it) in an effort to take part in top-level intercultural activities. In the item personally crucial to many here-student travel during the summer months-the commission has been instructed to begin negotiations immediately for low-cost transportation on special Maritime Commission ships, equalization of fares for the sexes, and arrangements whereby one can work for his passage...
...taken in short doses to remain fresh, but, "Acres and Pains" lacks the necessary shift of topic, becoming a well-executed, if occasionally heavy rehash of life on the farm. Composed of a series of magazine articles filled in with new material, the book does not show a continuous level of quality throughout. The older, more familiar chapters emphasize the bawdy wit of Perelman at his finest, while the latest material seems overly polished and forced...
Since Labor Day the squad has been in training on the college campus which is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on a hill 1,000 feet above sea level. Situated half-way between Baltimore, Maryland, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Western Maryland College overlooks the town of Westminster on the east and gives a 40-mile view west to the mountains. Men have come from Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts to get into condition for a season of stiff competition, Most of last year's team, which had the best record in the state, has returned...
Other prognosticators on the national level, such as Pic's previewer, refused to commit themselves on Harlow's eleven, commenting only on backfield strength and the well-known Harlow habit of coming from behind for a strong November finish. Like others, Pic had nothing but praise for the Eli squad, citing an all-letterman backfield and strong line...
Successful government at any level, national or supra-national, requires a certain area of agreement among the governed. And Mr. Vishinsky demonstrated rather conclusively that up to now there has been no meeting of minds between the leading citizens of Washington and Moscow. The successful functioning of a supra-national government also requires the existence of supra-national loyalties, which are not present except to a very limited degree...