Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tour through the villages not long ago, Nehru was supoosed to unfurl the national tricolor at a public meeting. Something went wrong with the pulley, and the flag would not unfurl. The Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled...
...sometimes think the American public doesn't understand very much about diplomacy. These things are not discussed with ambassadors-and they cannot be discussed with the press. And you can quote me on that...
Poor Cousins. Furthermore, says the FORUM, the public should treat the school crisis as a permanent one; "instead of handling 'temporary' schools as poor cousins, so badly built and maintained that children rightfully hate to go to them, we should set out to produce temporary schools of top quality." With up-to-date techniques, including prefabrication, a community can build an attractive new schoolhouse quickly and cheaply. When the time comes to remodel, rebuild, or abandon the school entirely, no large investment has been wasted...
Last week, the Harvard School of Public Health, which in 1929 developed the Drinker respirator (iron lung) for victims of spinal polio, announced that a device based on Dr. Sarnoff's theory is now helping to save the lives of victims of bulbar polio...
...time, public taste and a certain original insouciance on Shakespeare's part have conspired against Twelfth Night. Particularly in the theater, the strands of its complicated plot can come to seem like chains. With its dead characters who are actually alive, its young gentlemen who are really young ladies, its adored one who is really twins, its love-making that is really leg-pulling, the play swarms with rather impractical jokes. Then there are Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, those relentless cutups whom a later age would have relegated to the funny papers. They also have...