Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clamorous minorities last week (see p. 21), Polish Ukrainians complained that their Orthodox churches, some of them extremely ancient, were being systematically pulled down or turned into Roman Catholic churches. Of 350 which existed in 1918, all but 50 have vanished or changed hands, most of them during the past year. Both Orthodox and Uniat faithful, the Ukrainians declared, have been forced to adopt Roman Catholicism...
Today, 77-year-old, white-haired Paderewski lives quietly in a sprawling baroque villa at Merges, Switzerland. His careers as No. 1 Pianist and No. 1 Pole are both long past. This week, with the collaboration of Actress-Author Mary Lawton, he publishes a volume of memoirs* covering the first of these two careers (1860-1914), promises another volume at a later date...
...pointed up the most dramatic national collection in the show. Augmented by eight Austrian painters this year, the German section got its drama from the fact that almost half the artists included are on the Nazi undesirable list. Some have begun to paint ostentatiously pretty pictures to atone for past sins, others are allowed, like Karl Hofer, to paint as they please but not to exhibit in Germany. Being a work of art, Hofer's close-knit painting of two defenseless figures in an arbitrary swirl of blue drapery had more than one meaning, but it might certainly refer...
...Robert Maynard Hutchins, who is also chairman of St. John's governing board. Mr. Hutchins' theory is that the best way to learn to think is to study how great thinkers thought. His plan for a college education: reading and discussing the 100 greatest books of the past...
...Chicago, Henry Shull registered for his junior year at Northwestern University, planned to continue paying his way through college with prizes he has won in 59 contests during the past five years...