Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enjoy a paragraph which your story on the Lacandons of Chiapas (TIME, May 22) brought to mind. As you remark, the Lacandons are "an ancient, charming and all but extinct people." They are also one of the few non-Christian people among Mexico's many Indian tribes who have some knowledge of TIME...
...last paragraph, concerned with minimum requirements for election to the Undergraduate Chapter, had no foundation in fact. Election to Phi Beta Kappa is governed by a candidate's total record rather than course grades alone. There are no specific minimum requirements, and the only limitation is concerned with the maximum percentage eligible for membership in any graduating group...
...President's eyes looked weary and his voice was muffled by a head cold. But his spirits seemed as buoyant as the spring sun on the White House lawn. He read the first paragraph of his statement firmly: "The United Nations are fighting to make a world in which tyranny and aggression cannot exist; a world based upon freedom, equality and justice; a world in which all persons, regardless of race, color or creed, may live in peace, honor and dignity...
...papers, circ. 2,000,000) "occupies a world of deep, depressing blacks and dazzling whites. Untroubled by any of the shadings in between, he finds no difficulty in assigning a place to the most baffling tangle of cross-purposes.† The faculty enables him to read a three-paragraph dispatch about some remote and complicated affairs and come to an instant decision on what must be done. . . . Politically, Grafton [onetime office mate of Columnist Fisher] has been a supporter of the New Deal, although he grows restless because it hasn't accomplished as much...
Newsmen thumbed through a new official pamphlet, stopped short at one pregnant paragraph, read it again. No, their eyes had not deceived them. The U.S. Army (in Guide to the Use of Information Materials) had given its own startling view of what the U.S. public should know...