Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most interesting and significant trend" in Soviet education, he observed, is the boarding school. Training children all year, the schools have been met with enthusiastic response and offer incredible opportunities for indoctrination...
...seems far less worried by the religious partisans than by the Jacobins. He notes that there are a number of possible "aids to religion which do not appreciably affect the religious or other constitutional rights of individuals." Under the First Amendment, he feels, even such aids should not be offered by the Federal Government. But he thinks that state governments, similarly limited by past court interpretations of the 14th Amendment, ought to be free to offer them whenever they choose. For instance, there is no good reason, says Howe, why states should not settle such questions as whether public schools...
...Whoever Got Rich?" What the banks bit on was as airy a bit of corporate superstructure as any schoolboy could dream up during a dull study period. The son of a middling prosperous shoe merchant, Belle declined an offer to go in his father's business ("Whoever got rich fitting shoes?"). Instead, he started out legitimately enough as a co-founder of the Eastern Investment and Development Corp., formed to specialize in industrial uplift of moribund towns; he helped revive tiny (pop. 1,800) Saltsburg, Pa. with a campaign that attracted three new industries with a payroll of about...
Cocktail Time shows that though now (to use his own words) "a spavined septuagenarian," P. G. Wodehouse still has more to offer than most unspavined zanies of younger generations...
Their affair seems to offer each of them a chance of recapturing the hopes of youth. Anthony accepts his own degradation but romantically believes that Christiane has been able to carry her innocence through the mire of the years. Yet nothing has changed. He is still the petulant adolescent and she the woman who can be had but not possessed. Soon Christiane floats away on the superficiality that has always sustained her; Anthony sinks like a stone into the slums "to vanish up obscure alleys, to discover the filthiest restaurants and most squalid lodgings, to fuse with the dirty...