Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Things moved fast. Mr. Slater, the author, was met by our representative in London, and Conspirator purchased from him on April 22, 1948, three days after the date of TIME'S issue. The following day Slater was approached by three other major American studios, all equally inspired by the TIME review. They arrived too late...
...know, Conspirator deals with the story of a 17-year-old girl who marries a major on active duty with His Majesty's Brigade of Guards. Despite the major's high position in the most sacrosanct military unit in the Empire, he is secretly in the Communist Party and giving military information to the Soviet. When his young wife learns of his treason she becomes a thorn in the side of the intelligence operation of the Russians in London, and the major is instructed to liquidate her lest more trouble follow...
...past 3½ months, the House had passed 364 public and private bills. Besides ECA and the arms budget, it had authorized reciprocal-trade extension, rent-control extension, executive reorganization, oleo tax repeal, and extension of export and allocation controls. It had passed every major appropriation bill for the regular departments-a chore Congress usually delays, then jams through in its harried closing minutes...
...concentrators must for more intensive work select a special field from a group of 16 (sixteen). Honors candidates, who normally survive seven or eight courses in the field, take at the end of the junior year a two-part exam consisting of three questions to be chosen from four major chronological and geographical areas. True to its tradition, the department sees to it that one of the three questions must be on a pre-1700 topic. Men not attaining a satisfactory grade on this exam are dropped from the honors program...
...Music Department does not attempt to build dilettantes and shakes no lonk hair, but holds closely to a technical approach. Many concentrators feel that this leaning backwards on the part of the department to escape a "Conservatory" approach has become a major weakness, for little opportunity for practical application of musical skill is given...