Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiss had been a member of the Harvard Law Review, Justice Frankfurter told Lawyer Stryker. Yes, members of the Review were certainly young men of "intelligence, character and ability." In 1929, Harvard Professor Frankfurter had picked Hiss to serve as law clerk for the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Last month, Western officials cautiously started to let some money pour into West Germany's economic pool. The Bank Deutscher Länder relaxed credit restrictions by lowering the rediscount rate for its member banks. West Germany's economic boss, Dr. Ludwig Erhard, announced an 8½-billion-mark investment program for the coming fiscal year...
...first noteworthy member of the Torlonia family (which came from France to Italy in the 18th Century) was Giovanni, a rag & bone merchant who became one of Europe's greatest financiers, lent money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple of ancient dukedoms, but Roman aristocracy-whose thin blue lineage is longer than almost anybody else's-sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only...
...assistant" at the observatory a year later (1899), he jumped at the chance. It was a sort of clerk's job, calling for long hours of jotting down star observations. Leon Campbell soon impressed his superiors with his independent work, and in 1905 he was made a regular member of the observatory staff...
...from Christ and practice in our church meeting, we stand for political and religious freedom, for economic justice, for racial equality and for equality of the sexes. But we stand not less for the responsibility of every individual for the good of any fellowship of which he is a member...