Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed in the Senate,. a bill to buy $1,000,000 worth of new furniture for new Senate offices. Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas protested. New Mexico's Democrat Dennis Chavez replied that Douglas could keep his ratty old furniture if he liked, but other Senators were going to live better. Cried Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who hopes that the bill will improve the Senate restaurant: "Hundreds of hours every day in this capitol are wasted by officials who are paid $22,500 a year, standing in line to get something to eat, as if they were...
...Syria was a Roman and Byzantine province, but sometimes it was difficult to tell who were the conquerors and who the conquered. When Rome celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of her founding in A.D. 248, the Roman Emperor was Syrian-born Philip the Arab. As the incubator of Christianity-Paul was converted on the road to Damascus-Syria gave Rome five Popes: John V, St. Sergius, Sisinnius, Constantine and St. Gregory...
...least 48 news and documentary specials for Sunday afternoons. The CBS schedule is so tight that the four Frank Capra-produced Bell Telephone science shows had to move over to NBC. Splashiest of all will probably be The Du Pont Show of the Month, offering ten 90-minute spectaculars: Paul Gregory's Crescendo, a mishmash of American music with Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical edition of Junior Miss; and a Cole PorterS. J. Perelman musicollaboration on Alladin. To plug the Ford Motor...
This observance of St. Bartholomew's Day has grown year by year since 1937, when it was started by Abbe Paul Couturier, an ex-schoolteacher who had found his vocation as priest at the age of 56. Until his death in 1953, grey, scholarly Abbe Couturier devoted himself to encouraging understanding and cooperation among churches. He once succeeded in persuading a Catholic missionary magazine to devote an entire issue to the work of Protestant missions...
...long battle over just what sort of education the public schools should provide, few voices are more reasonable than that of Professor Paul Woodring of Western Washington College of Education (TIME, Oct. 12, 1953). In his latest book (A Fourth of a Nation; McGraw-Hill, $4.50) Woodring takes a hard look at both the educationists and their critics, offers a sensible compromise of his own. The so-called "new education" that developed out of the progressive revolt of the '20s and '30s, says he, "can no more survive unchanged in the second half of this century than...