Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City will sport another newspaper within two weeks. T. O. Thackrey, editor of the New York Post-Home News, has announced that he will take over the now defunct New York Star, formerly PM. Thackrey's new paper will be titled The Compass and will sell for ten cents...
...post-war inflation of costs has created a scholarship problem for the College. The minimum cost of going to Harvard College has increased about 50 per cent from about $1000 in 1940-41 to about $1500 or more now. Our scholarship money which comes from endowment has, of course, set increased anything like this amount...
...obtained from the Madrid government a charter which provided some autonomies (e.g., the right to make trade treaties with foreign nations) which Puerto Rico does not have now. After the cession of Puerto Rico to the U.S., Muñoz Rivera was invited to take a cabinet post in Madrid. He declined. He chose to stay in Puerto Rico, later became the island's Resident Commissioner in Washington. Today he is venerated for having won U.S. citizenship for his countrymen...
...observation, an overstatement of something found in the writings of Kierkegaard and the German existentialist, Heidegger, may be paraphrased as "I exist and find it sickening." The experience recounted in Nausea is one of deep physical and metaphysical horror, well beyond the ennui, already sufficiently sick, that such French post-romantic writers as Baudelaire liked to wallow...
Precept & Example. In Memphis, Traffic-Safety Expert Forrest Mottweiler explained to the ambulance driver why he had crashed into a concrete post: he had fallen asleep at the wheel. In Los Angeles, William V. Mendenhall of Angeles National Forest Service was checking plans for the annual fire-prevention campaign when the pack of matches he was carrying in his hip pocket set his trousers afire. In Baltimore, Kinsey H. Dillon was indicted for evading payment of $4,819 in income taxes for 1945-46, the same years he was employed as a government auditor to check reports of income...