Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Camouflaging her nostalgia behind a five-paragraph facade of labored derision--"the Harvard man is stooped, bespectacled, and loathes football"-- SCAN's own Mary Latson finally reveals her true sentiments with a jealous blast at Radcliffe monopoly. "Where there's Harvard, there's ALWAYS Radcliffe," she wails...
...ordered: that the board institute an investigation to determine whether provisions for the transportation without additional charge of one pair of skis in addition to 40 lbs. of free baggage allowed each passenger, contained in Paragraph (f) (5) (a) of Rule 16 appearing on fourth revised Page 18 of Redfern's Local and Joint Passenger Rules Tariff No. PR-2, CAB No. 12, may be unjust or unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or unduly prejudicial, and whether and to what extent the board shall take further action with respect thereto...
...Herschel Johnson: "So . . . the innocent little Slavic-Albanian brothers . . . are menaced by this wicked fascist Greek wolf. It is curious and almost like a fairy tale come to life." The councilors went through their paces like actors in a tediously familiar tragedy of manners. They voted down Gromyko, paragraph by paragraph, with only the pale hand of Poland's Oscar Lange raised with Gromyko's. Later Colombia suggested a compromise which called for the creation of a new, slightly modified Balkan Commission. Gromyko said the Colombia proposal was simply the old U.S. resolution with a "wash, a haircut, powder...
...teachers of Philadelphia's Central High School had stood about all they could stand. "Students come to us," they angrily wrote the Board of Education, "without fundamental skills. They cannot read simple verse, or a prose paragraph in history and get the sense. They falter in simple arithmetical processes. . . ." The reason, said the teachers, was that "students assume they will be promoted without study...
...protest, Dreptatea used up most of its front page to publish a document which contained a remarkable paragraph. It seemed to be an insanely reckless attack on Joseph Stalin. The paragraph...