Word: orients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the committee worked just a trifle too hard. The constitution that has been fashioned is, if nothing else, a marvel of complexity. In three concise sentences it lists the Society's purposes--to be hosts for visiting firemen, to orient new freshmen, and to perform other hospitable services. These, indeed, are worthy aims. But, rather than setting up a small, workable committee to put them into practice, the Council's group has drafted a long and involved hierarchy of committees. The actual work is to be done by a fairly large group of sophomore and junior candidates; formation...
...peasant and Bedouin knows his name. He likes to dress dramatically, to fit his dramatic legend. His favorite . garments: a fleece-lined flying jacket, or long sheep-lined cape draped over his shoulders. After his escape from France last year (TIME, March 10, 1947), crowds often appeared before the Orient Palace Hotel in Damascus, and clamored to see him. He began every speech with the words: "I am not a man of words; I am a man of action." The crowd loved...
Professor Pound, who is now in the Orient helping unify Chinese laws, made his observations in this morning's Law School Record...
When he got home last week from his trip to the Orient, Colonel Robert R. McCormick found a reception committee waiting on the sidewalk. They were pickets from the International Typographical Union, on strike against the Trib and five other major Chicago dailies. The Colonel walked past them into his Tribune Tower...
...tragic result of our Government's ineptitude and lack of policy in Asia has been to allow the Soviets and their allies to make rapid progress in liquidating their problems there and completing their expansion in the Orient so as to be free to turn all their effort to the subjugation of Europe...