Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Courses which Rhee took were: American History to 1789, History of Continental Europe from the Peace of Utrecht to the Present, Studies in the Expansion of Europe since 1815, European Industry and Commerce in the Nineteenth Century, American Diplomacy--Treaties, Application of International Law, and Foreign Policy, and one labeled International Law as Administered by the Courts and as Observed in International Negotiations...
General Dean, a career officer of nearly 30 years' service, distinguished himself as a fearless and able commander in World War II (during which his hair turned practically white). His 44th Infantry Division drove through Germany into Austria, helped force the surrender of the Nineteenth German army, took 30,000 prisoners. General Dean was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism in action . . . outstanding leadership and utter disregard for personal safety." Said General Douglas MacArthur last week: "It is still hoped that this gallant officer, if alive, has not fallen into enemy hands...
Those in the mid-century audience who were graduated fifty years ago might well have looked forward with confidence to a lifetime of peace and prosperity A Nineteenth Century of relative peace and advancing prosperity then made plausible the liberal faith in inevitable and rational progress. And the First World War was a decade and a half away. Even the Class of 1925, despite one world war and postwar disillusionment, could hardly have envisaged the economic collapse of 1929, the rise of totalitarianism, and a second world war. But to us of the Class of 1950, the outlook...
...happy that his teaching has led him back to Harvard and says that 144 Bratle Street will be his nineteenth and last house. He has decided to stay in what he considers the best music department in the country because he has more good students here than he has ever had before...
...puff oil, Hitting the Line, showed, football is a mighty hard sport to picture convincingly. Prizefighting, where the action is limited to two men under brilliant light, does better, and the best painting in the show was George Bellows' classic one of Firpo knocking Dempsey through the ropes. Nineteenth Century standouts were engravings of the great Australian heavyweight, Peter Jackson, and of a bearded speedster named William Howitt...