Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ARMAND E. SINGER West Virginia University Morgantown, W. Va. ¶ Reader Singer is right. At the time of Cervantes' death, Protestant England was using the Julian (Old Style) calendar, which was ten days behind Spain's-and the rest of Catholic Europe's-Gregorian (New Style) calendar...
Preventive. In Boston, police found three-year-old Billy McConnell wandering the streets, skipped their usual treatment for lost children after reading the note pinned to his jacket: "Please do not feed. Thank...
TIME'S founders conceived of an Art department which, while performing the function of criticism, would roam over the entire field of art journalism from old masters to contemporary painters. For like nearly every other aspect of each week's important happenings, the news of art is not always to be found in the big galleries, but frequently in alleys and side streets and back rooms like that of M. de Cardonne in Paris...
...refused to see his friends. He even gave up translating Latin, which is one of his hobbies. Only once did he come near to breaking during the trial-during the heat of late July. Then he left the court one day and lay down in an anteroom, a suddenly old and exhausted man who was almost convinced he would never be able to return to the grueling legal marathon into which he had been thrown...
...dispiritedly, Congress trudged toward adjournment. Up for debate was the liberalized Displaced Persons bill, which leaders in both parties were pledged to support. Blasted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee after nine months of dogged obstruction by Chairman Pat McCarran, the bill would remove the discriminatory provisions of the old D.P. act, and admit an additional 134,000 D.P.s in the next two years...