Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Patton had the effrontery to say to the Almighty (who has handed down the commandment "Thou shalt not kill") give me good weather "so that I can annihilate the whole German army with one stroke as a birthday present for Your Prince of Peace" [TIME, Jan. 10], he at least should not have had the vanity and bad taste to ... write it down so somebody else could publish it later...
...Government brought eleven top leaders of the Communist Party to trial. The twelfth, William Foster, 67-year-old party chairman, had begged off because of an ailing heart. The charge, hung on them last summer by a grand jury: they had conspired in 1945* to form the present Communist Party structure and teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government...
...chief purpose up here is not marking papers," Dyer pointed out. "What we're trying to do at present is to explore individual differences by means of statistical research. We predict the academic rank of each freshman after registration and then follow up his record. Our predictions are usually 78 percent accurate within a certain area...
Junior class President Joan Anable '50 first brought the matter up at the Student Council meeting January 5--at which Miss Sherman was present. Several girls had suggested staging the dance at the Somerset and Miss Anable asked for the Council's reaction. Council referred the matter to the administration, adding that Student Government could in no way aid the classes, should a monetary loss be incurred...
...worth of snow should come as a midget challenge to the maintenance departments of the University and the City of Cambridge charged with the task of keeping highways and byways clear for the pedestrian. But, with the annual reliability of the stadium ticket crisis and the Dean's Christmas-present reminder that New Year's Day ends vacationing, the snow and slush flasco has once again come upon the Square...