Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the seniors said they were satisfied with their major subject, although 13% of the men and 17% of the women wished, now that it was all over, that they had chosen a different one. The kind of education they had had was split roughly 60-40 between a generalized education and specific training. Asked what they would desire if they could do it all over again, half said they would follow the same educational line, the rest leaned toward more specific training...
...other fields of foreign affairs, "there has been no consultation at all with the Republican leadership." These fields, said Dewey, included the Greek-Turkish policy, the Potsdam agreements, Palestine, and "the entire China policy, or lack of one." Foreign policy, he made clear, was going to be a major target in the campaign...
...cookbook, 100 to Dinner (University of Toronto Press; $3.50), was an up-dater of a manual put together for service kitchens during the war, and it was badly needed. Raising the standard of Ontario resort cooking even to that of an army mess was a major operation. "Ontario," quipped a visitor to Toronto, "is as conservative gastronomically as it is politically. Eating is a dull pastime indeed, something to have and to have done with...
...lawn outside. At 8:30, a kindly-faced man, with the tiny red rosette of the Legion of Honor in the lapel of his grey suit, nudged his way through the chancel, climbed up on the organ bench, stretched his legs, and began Bach's Prelude in C Major. As he wove the huge fabric of the fugue, never losing a single thread of it, his listeners understood why Marcel Dupré is considered one of the greatest living organists...
...major objective of Central American exiles, who helped Rebel Leader José Figueres to victory in Costa Rica, was to: 1. Induce Manuel Mora to return...