Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prior to the discussion the story of a 55-year-old woman "too courageous to cry" was dramatized by students of local colleges to present the problem of "Why has mother become so abnormal lately?" Father Edward H. Nowian of Boston College joined Allport in analyzing the effects of no emotion on her personality...
...would like very much to associate this gift with the spirit of Christmas." With these words Industrialist Myron C. Taylor last week presented Cornell University with a Christmas present that was notable indeed-$1,500,000. Its purpose: to establish a student interfaith building in memory of his wife. The new structure will contain a chapel dedicated to Cornell men who died in World War II, an "All Nations" room, an auditorium, and offices for twelve cooperating church groups. Episcopalian Taylor (Cornell law school 1894; presidential envoy to the Vatican since 1939) has already given the university its law school...
...Texans thought they had one good defense against the suit. In the 1845 treaty of annexation, the U.S. promised to let Texas keep all its undeveloped lands, including those extending offshore for three marine leagues (10½ miles). But the present dispute involved a much larger area. Some of the oil lies as much as 140 miles out on the Continental Shelf. Texans hoped they had taken care of that too. Since the Justice Department first brought suit against California, the Texas legislature has passed a bill declaring the Gulf of Mexico, in effect, just a Texas lake...
...T.W.A. said that it would soon start an inexpensive "skycoach" service between Kansas City and Los Angeles, if CAB approves. The one-way fare would be $59.50, one-third less than the present air fare and well under the Pullman cost ($77.30). Capital Airlines, which started a New York-Chicago "coach" service in November, has had to add extra flights to satisfy the demand...
...present case the forgiving listener was the Hon.* Bertrand Russell, 43-year-old lecturer on mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, author (with Alfred North Whitehead) of Principia Mathematica, one of the most revolutionary books of the 20th Century. The year was 1915-16; D. H. Lawrence was 30 and beginning to be well known, but in the middle of a "spiritual crisis" that was plunging him into "utter darkness of chaos." All that Russell and Lawrence had in common was a passionate objection to the continuance of World War I, and Lawrence hoped that they might not only get together...