Word: originalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provision stipulating state control of any school accepting state support, another requiring such schools to open their doors to all pupils, no matter what their "origin, belief or opinion." The church was stunned. At week's end, quailing at the prospect of a debate packed with so much emotion, Deputies on both sides began calling on De Gaulle for his personal arbitration. But the general, having seen his Cabinet dangerously split for the first time, chose silence...
Perhaps the stockings will be hung from the chimney with more care this year. For it seems that an anthropologist (it never matters who in these accounts) discovered the origin of St. Nicholas in a primitive fertility god--truly a shock for those of us who have regarded the great man with blind affection all these years...
Manhattan concert audiences last week heard fine performances of two unusual compositions that were widely different in style but unmistakably American in origin...
...SYMPOSIUM ON EVOLUTION, marking the centenary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. Darwin Recalled, Bernard J. Boelen, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University; Biology--Viruses and Evolution, Frederick C. Bawden, M.A.F.R.S., Rothamsted Experimental Station for botanical research, author...
...perish" program has brought 1,400,000 European settlers to its shores. Half of them are "New Australians" (meaning Continental Europeans), who are changing the look and sounds of a nation whose people are rugged in their insularity and proud of the common bond of their British Isles origin...