Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nice time at the party. Thank you for playing games. I enjoy the ice cream, Christmas present. I like the candy and the Jinger ale, had fun with the magic art game. Thank you for everything sincerely...
...fulfillment of these two aims lies the greatness of Mrs. Coolidge's life work. Under the auspices of the Foundation, the world's finest musicians have been able to present to attentive audiences music of their own choice whose special appeal would generally exclude it from the concert-manager system. Alexander Schneider's performances throughout the country, as well as at Harvard, of Bach's Six Snotaas for Unaccompanied Violin are examples of her impartial patronage. --Herbert P. Gleason
...many qualified students cannot pay their own way. The Commission asked for federal scholarships and fellowships, as well as generous grants to the states to enable colleges to roll back tuition charges. It appears, however, that elementary and secondary schools are going to be served first by the present Congress. Colleges will have to limp along, and the sizzling issues of aid to private schools and southern segregated education will doubtless be finessed at the present too. But if the Administration really wants to toss a lot of money into the states' school systems this year, it will probably have...
...famous lawyer also declined to comment on the statement that he has complete confidence that China will survive the Communist challenge. "I don't think the present situation in China is any more serious than at the time of the Japanese invasion," the report quoted him as saying...
...unless the contest has turned into a rout. In swimming and track, you not only have to be practically on the first team just to compete against Yale, but you have to score points to earn your letter. The minor sports, then, are hardly the only victims of the present system, which not even Yale uses anymore; and if a minor-sports athlete is breaking all sorts of records, the chances are that he will win one of the League championships and automatically win a major H. The Michigan system which you think should be embraced makes no major-minor...