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Word: nationally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between the release and the postponement last weekend, institutions and veterans councilors throughout the nation were in complete confusion about registration of veterans who had not yet "justified" their new courses and who might be deprived of educational benefits under the GI Bills of Rights, at least until the VA approved their "justifications...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: A V C Pledges Fight on VA's Education Ruling | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...fact remains that recognition of Spain, a country which denies fundamental freedoms and was an active, if not open, ally of Germany in World War II, would sabotage the 1946 United Nations resolution which requested all members to break off ties with any nation which abridged human rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taft and Friend | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

Later, when Jesse became a superintendent, he found things less pleasant. Educationally, Kentucky was near the bottom of the nation's list ("Thank God for Arkansas," people used to say). The schools were often under the thumb of dictatorial trustees "who couldn't write their names, who would not know their own names if they had been printed on road signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mountain Man | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

John and Margaret Perkins of the University of Michigan decided that the nation knew far too little about the presidents its colleges & universities were getting. They decided to make a survey of their own. Last week, in School and Society, they told what they had found out about the heads of 84 state and land-grant colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mr. President | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...lying, Hiss or Chambers?" This question was asked of a jury in New York's Federal Courthouse and of a nation outside. But the quiz game became really perplexing when the defense brought in testimony on a book theft from the Columbia Library over 20 years ago, and when the prosecution started asking about the color of wall-paper. The jury, confused, but air-conditioned, fiddled with a Woodstock typewriter and then gave up; they were 8 to 4 for conviction, and they were as angry and upset as most others. One juryman, who had been in the majority, told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Puzzle | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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