Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign correspondents who learned their trade under the auspices of the free U.S. or British press, the kind of restricted news coverage that the Balkans Communist states now have to offer is, to say the least, frustrating. It is all the more to the credit of those correspondents who remain, therefore, that they are doing a tough job as best they can until the Iron Curtain closes completely or it again becomes possible to report freely what is going on in the Balkans...
...argument for the Clubs has been written anonymously (and illogically) in a sprightly and rather witty tone. The author admits that Clubs "probably" have a bad effect on the academic efforts of their members, but claims that they "offer the undergraduate a congenial circle of friends that the college at large does not try to offer him." He considers his Club friends to be less stand-offish than "the average Harvard man," but fails to make it clear whether or not those genial Club men are genial only with other Club men or if they are just naturally "hail-fellows...
...committee has been to present to the College community the hard, unavoidable fact that students are not taking part in their own education; the fact that much of the blame for this condition must be attributed to the College's methods--or lack of methods--of education; and to offer several suggested remedies for the situation...
Soviet Union kicked her out as a spy, was still suffering frustration: the eleven U.S. Communists on trial in Manhattan, flatly rejecting her offer of $1,000 for their defense, called it "a shabby promotion scheme...
...night life in the tripper traps of old Montmartre. The landscape painters were busy by day on the Seine bridges, and Josephine Baker, the oft-warmed-over toast of gay Paree, was going through 32 costume changes a night at the Folies Bergeres. The grande saison de Paris would offer 150 spectacles, from colored lighting displays of the Versailles fountains to an amateur night for drink-mixers at the Hotel Continental. France was also pleased to announce that even the trains were running on time. One day last week, for the first time since the war, every train...