Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegian carpenter named Martin Lie, leaving his wife and a small son, went off to the fabulous world which Oslo still called new. Driven by the instincts common to migrants of all time in quest of adventure or security or freedom (or simply of wider skies and unfamiliar faces), he sailed toward the west. The hard but hospitable shores received him and he vanished, unknown and untraced, in the fertile chaos of a country's growth. No one ever knew whether he found what he sought. He didn't write home...
...entity to which Trygve Lie had sworn loyalty was known to the world as the United Nations; no one was quite sure what that meant. Was it a new world, also? Or a legal figment, spinning a web of Whereases and Be it Resolveds between...
According to the publicity stream, the Chase-Smith company is emphasizing Theatre in its productions this year. There is no doubt that the settings and other theatrical aspects of its productions are excellent, but the overwhelming assets of the Ballet Theatre still lie in its repertoire and subordinate dancers. No one can approach a list of productions including Pillar of Fire, Fair at Sorochinsk, Fancy Free, Interplay, the new Facsimile, and a wide range of more familiar numbers. Ballets like Fancy Free have retained surprisingly well the fresh impact that made them famous originally, and the Ballet Theatre still treats...
...Arts and Sciences in the fall of 1946 is no Pisgah sight. For although the Harvard faculty is rivalled by no other American college with the possible exception of Chicago, it is surprisingly spotty and contains astonishing lacks. By and large, the Faculty's principal weakness seems to lie in its younger men, a weakness which is particularly poignant inasmuch as the continued supremacy of the Harvard Faculty is predicated on its ability to replenish itself through the appointment of the very best of the young teachers and scholars. In addition, discrepancies exist among the ranks of associate and full...
...basic reasons for dissatisfaction among the miners lie in the fact that the coal industry is not a going concern in this country. In the marginal and submarginal mines, men work irregularly and only two or three times a week; the casualties in mine accidents are appalling, because the industry does not have the money to modernize and make safe the places where the men work. Most of the miners live on company property in little, dirty towns and have contact with the outside world only through their union; they have no essential security in job or home. Under present...