Word: peering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant took two routes to evade such pressure. One was by the installation in his office of a crystal ball which is inevitably brought out when someone makes a request of him. Conant draws the supplicant over to the crystal ball, they both peer into it, and they are confronted by an enormous "No." It's an easy way out, but it shows applicants that they are not alone in their desires for more funds...
...peer closely at his phiz, So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is. They tell you he's a mummy...
...Sunday poses the question: Can a girl from the little mining town of Silver Creek, Colo, find happiness married to England's richest, most handsome peer, Lord Henry Brinthrope? Answer, after about 15 years...
Died. Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the ninth Earl Fitzwilliam, 68, whose title and ?1,000,000 ($2,800,000) fortune were the plums last year in one of England's costliest court actions; of heart disease; in Oakham, England. The childless peer's second cousin, Capt. W.T.G.W. ("Tom") Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, became next in line when Tom's older brother, George J. ("Toby") Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, failed to prove that his dashing Royal Horse Guards father was properly married to his actress mother before Toby was born...
...actual immigration of only half the number the overall quota allows. Countries like England have larger quotas than prospective immigrants. The Humphrey-Lehman bill, suggest "pooling" these quotas, so that the slack of countries like England can be taken up by Italy or Greece, where prospective immigrants now peer hopelessly in the windows of the Immigration Service buildings. It also leaves room for citizens of Iron Curtain countries who have been persecuted for non-Communist beliefs, in the belief that those who have suffered for democracy are entitled to its benefits...