Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the school a while to outgrow the gibe. But the Duke of President Edens had much to boast of besides its millions. In the past decade, it had doubled in size (to 5,211 students), and as enrollments swelled, standards had been raised to keep out all but top-ranking applicants. World War II finally eliminated the flashy roadster; the veteran drove out the playboy...
Harvard Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.* (The Age of Jackson) has a serious quarrel to pick with his fellow scholars and with the teaching of history in U.S. schools. Too many of them, he thinks, have become victims of "historical senti-mentalism." Their view of the past has become clouded by a vogue of optimism, their work distorted by a wave of wishful thinking and a burning determination to push moral issues under the rug. In the current issue of Partisan Review, Professor Schlesinger states his case...
...almost died. But I survived, and I thought, 'Look, Matisse isn't dead!' With this extra life I could do as I pleased. I could create what I'd been struggling all these years to create. My work may seem more joyful than in the past but it's exactly what I was trying to do 50 years ago. It has taken me that long to arrive at the stage where I can say what I want...
Three times in the past five years, Presbrey has "just been riding by" in a streetcar when million-dollar fires broke out in the sprawling industrial area known as the Midway, between Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 1945, while watching a St. Paul movie one evening, Presbrey stirred nervously in his seat, decided that he had better go out in the street and have a look around. He walked right into a $500,000 department-store fire...
...their eight-year lows. Gaumont-British common, which hit a high of 18s. last year, was down to 4s. 6d. last week. Odeon Theatres common, which had been up to 453., was down to 8. Commented the London Evening Standard: "In view of the gloomy estimates [of] the past year's results . . . shareholders must be prepared for shocks as far as dividends are concerned...