Word: novae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lively to Live. The man in carpet slippers sitting in an easy chair reading it was nearly 87, and the No. 1 theorist of U.S. education. John Dewey had just published his own 35th book (Problems of Men; Philosophical Library, $5). He was packing his bags for a Nova Scotia vacation. For September he planned an inspection trip to China's universities, where he is regarded as a major prophet...
Canada normally uses 43,000,000 tons of coal a year. She gets 17,000,000 tons from mines in four provinces: Nova Sco tia, New Brunswick, Alberta and British Columbia. She could increase this production by half a million tons, but no more...
...From Nova Scotia's Cabot Trail to British Columbia's Malahat Drive last week Canada's nine provinces spruced up, put on their best bibs and party manners to play host to the biggest drove of U.S. tourists in history. In all, Canada expected 25,000,000 visitors to spend well over $200,000,000 this year (last year's intake: over...
...months ago they decided to do something about this semi-prohibition. Result: a ding-dong wet-dry battle. Headed by Mayor Allan M. Butler, the wets supported a plebiscite calling upon the Nova Scotian Government to permit establishment of taverns which would sell beer and liquor by the glass. Last week Haligonians voted for taverns...
Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 52 years ago, MacKenzie quit his studies at Dalhousie University to go overseas, won a Military Medal and Bar. Back at college, he took 39 courses to the average student's 20, worked his way through by digging postholes, taking census, parking cars. Then he took postgraduate courses in law at Harvard and Cambridge. For four years he worked on a Saskatchewan farm. He has long been one of Canada's top men in international affairs, was called by the Government in 1943 to head the Wartime Information Board...