Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest single group, 14 English students here on visas, heads a list that includes men from practically every part of the world. Nine refugee scholars from Germany came here with the intention of eventually becoming citizens...
...geographical distribution of foreign students closely follows the pattern established last year when 82 men from other countries were in Cambridge. China, with seven students, has climbed closer to its normal position at the head of the numerical list. Canada has nine in the College, and Guatamala and Mexico closely follow the leaders with seven apiece...
...almost furtively. Headed by sly Andrei Vishinsky (Molotov is staying at home for a while), Russia's sprawling delegation whisked off to its snuggery among the millionaires on Long Island's north shore. Officials at U.N.'s Secretariat resolutely turned down reporters' requests for a list of other delegates' hotels. "There have been protests," explained an official with a somewhat sly look, "particularly from the Arabs. Probably they don't want to be disturbed...
...fellow citizens, set out to soften them up. He organized a group of Brooklyn's leading Negro citizens, including one judge, into a formal "how-to-handle-Robinson committee." In every other city in the National League, Rickey set up similar committees. The Brooklyn committee drew up a list of do's and don'ts a yard long; Jackie's deportment in public & private was to be supervised as thoroughly as Princess Elizabeth...
...Mikkola's standards, last year's Varsity would up considerably below Dean's List, winning four and losing five including the Yale meet. They had hill trouble. On the flat they ran like greyhounds, only to collapse at the mere sight of an upgrade. Having to practice on the level University riverbank path for lack of transportation elsewhere was thought to be the cause...