Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As entertainment, the United Nations was shaping up as better than anything else on daytime television. Dramatically, the chief flaw was still the tendency of the opposing orators to repeat their arguments over & over again. As one of the Brooklyn teen-agers complained: "They just say what they think or...
In England and Wales, as in the U.S., the Roman Catholic Church has long maintained a school system of its own, to give children church doctrine along with their Three Rs. Last week, Catholic Parents' Associations in Britain were rallying support for a drastic change: they wanted to persuade...
English Catholics had winced when the 1944 Education Act was passed. Under its provisions for new schools, better buildings and an extra year of compulsory education (to age 15), the total cost for Catholics was estimated at ?10 million-over & above the regular taxes paid to support government schools. Catholic...
None of the witnesses, said he, could have taken a picture. They had been gone over by the jail's $7,000 "inspectoscope," and with its X-ray beam it would have either detected the hidden camera or, at least, fogged its film. (City Room gossip was that Photographer...
There was nothing Navy could do about the savagery of Army's defense platoon, the precisely explosive blocking of its offense, the smart quarterbacking of All-America Arnold Galiffa. A versatile, 22-year-old ex-G.I. (who is also a baseball infielder and captain of West Point'...