Word: milled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detachments from three different stations roared deafeningly down DeWolfe St. and Memorial Drive, converging on Mill St. and the south wing of Lowell House. From a fourth floor suite, smoke issued threateningly. But this was to be no day for glory...
Having recently been through the mill, most farmers were being prudent with their new prosperity. In Fresno, Calif., heart of the San Joaquin Valley machine-farming area, Julius Neilsen, Bank of America farm-loan representative, said: "I never saw so many farmers come in ahead of time and pay off their loans." The Iowa Life Insurance Co. reported its sales to farmers through April were up 78% over last year. And, said Red Oak Agent Stanley Fagerland: "When the farmer gets around to buying life insurance, you know he is getting back on his feet...
...next three days the princess marched with easy dignity through a dull, crowded round of ceremonies. She watched a track meet (again from her cooled chair), attended a garden party, laid a cornerstone, visited a sugar mill. Relaxing one night at a private calypso party, she watched in awe as nimble "limbo" dancers wriggled under a ten-inch-high bar without touching the floor with their hands, showed no reaction (although officials blanched) when a calypso singer, in an improvised lyric, referred to her broken romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend. At week's end she flew...
Russia has granted Afghanistan loans totaling $106,600,000 to build public projects, India a $115 million loan to pay for Soviet blueprints, equipment and technicians for a 1,000,000-ton-capacity steel mill. Credits for industrial development have been granted to Yugoslavia, Egypt, Indonesia. Russia last week signed a $750 million trade agreement with West Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS), has increased its trade with Latin America from virtually nothing four years ago to 8% of the area's foreign trade...
Bertrand Russell stands at the end of a philosophic line of succession extending from John Locke through David Hume and John Stuart Mill. As such, he is heir to perhaps the most civilized and intelligent tradition in the modern Western world. Like the giants before him, he is distinguished for his analytical brilliance, lucid literary style, sane empiricism, humanistic ethics, courageously enlightened life, and like them, except for Locke, he is a religious agnostic. He is indeed a magnificent fusion of passion and skepticism...