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Word: putting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clarence House, had his accomplishments summed up for him by the British press, which unbent to the point of talking a little baby talk. The royal child weighs 25 Ibs., is tall for his age, has six teeth, already has taken his first steps, and has had his name put down for the Grenadier Guards. Only available quotes-considered adequate by most Britons-as his 40-lb. birthday cake was cut: "Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Executive Secretary Glenn L. Archer of Protestants & Other Americans United for the Separation of Church & State was not reassured. Archer flatly called for the resignation of all Roman Catholic judges who cannot affirm that they will put their oath of office before the guidance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Which Law? | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Pope. And in heavily Roman Catholic Las Vegas, N.M., District Judge Luis Armijo put himself on record as having no intention of being bound by the ruling of the Pontiff. "I may be a Catholic," he announced, "but I'm a citizen of the United States first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Which Law? | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...CALLED FAKE. A long-distance call to a bona fide Hohenzollern in Texas, reported the States triumphantly, had established that "there is no Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern." So had a search of the Almanack de Gotha and inquiries at the U.S. State Department. For good measure, the States also put in a transatlantic call to Hechingen, Germany, where Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm himself denounced "Otto Wilhelm" as an impostor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Copy | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...rest of the world. Out of their acquaintance was to come a challenge aimed at everything that many U.S. colleges and universities had come to hold most estimable: spreading campuses, more & more courses, a steady stream of glossy new facts. The sharp question that Hutchins was to put to U.S. higher education (in the loudest of voices): What shall we do with the facts? Robert Hutchins got his chance to make the challenge just two years later. At 30 he became the "boy wonder" president of the University of Chicago. Not long after, he invited Adler to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worst Kind of Troublemaker | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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