Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, when federal aid comes it should be restricted to public schools, Sargent feels. "It is a logical continuation of the principle of separation of church and state. We fought it out on the state level in the 1840's. Separation of church and state was valid then on a national basis." He noted that American society needs some force such as public schools which help to unify its various economic, social, and religious groupings...
...Never again," said U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, would she accept a compromise in the United Nations merely to win Soviet support for something everyone else had agreed on. For three years Delegate Roosevelt has tried her level best to get along with the Russians. Last week, in a speech at Washington, she conceded that it hadn't seemed to work. "I don't think I will ever compromise again even on words," she said. "The Soviets look on this as evidence of weakness rather than as a gesture of good will...
...they come in the hundreds, there is yet no plan for helping these people. The shabby office, beyond offering a few nights' lodging, can only register names, count them and ask: What now? The answer can come only from one of those "top level" decisions in halls of state far from the world of the smiling hunchback or the frightened housewife...
...labor camp in Frankfurt. When he got home, he weighed only 80 pounds. Now married and heavier, quick-humored Guido is delighted with his chance to work with the NBC Symphony, though still somewhat bashful about his performance. Said he last week: "With this orchestra, there is no impassable level. If I could only express myself in English, I think I could get more from them...
...candidate's intellectual merits and financial needs. Furthermore, warned the presidents: "The association sees in the proposal of the President's Commission for a sudden rise in the number of college and university students a great danger that we shall multiply our educational performance at its lowest level. The association advises . . . the Government to give serious thought to this danger...