Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe Magazine appeared the next year, with an imposing board of fourteen editors. It grew out of an English Club which had been in the habit of meeting to read aloud the best themes submitted during the week. The Magazine lasted until 1920, and printed Alumnae notes as well as prose and poetry compositions. The fiction was highly romantic and by modern standards quite naive. Most contributions seem to reflect the Radcliffe girl's longing for a Great Emotional Experience, and implies that a chaperoned walk from Shepard Street to Agassiz every day was not particularly exciting...
...should vote for any representative of a "national" party: "I ask only one thing of you: don't vote Bolshevik!" Even flamboyant Jacques Soustelle, De Gaulle's Minister of Information, who masterminded the May 13 revolt in Algeria, was running a low-keyed campaign. His election posters read: "You know me; you know what I've done; you know what I will...
Identical Words. The radio had come on the air, blaring martial music. Then at dawn the announcer read a communique signed by Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, chief of staff of the 10,000-man Sudanese army. He was taking over the 1,000,000 square miles of the Sudan, said Abboud, to end governmental corruption and chaos and to restore peace and order. Declaring martial law, Abboud shut down all newspapers, banned all political parties and public assemblies or demonstrations. Using almost the identical words of General Ne Win and General Ayub Khan when they seized power in Burma...
...Minute Conclave. The names of the two tying candidates were written on pieces of paper and dropped into a tarboosh. Father Paul W. Romley of Pittsburgh, a young American priest who does not read Arabic, drew one name. Out came the name of Moawad, and the pro-Soviet candidate was out of the running. Said one pro-Western prelate later: "The decision was left...
...generations, nearly every handy American boy read Popular Mechanics magazine. It was the bible of budding scientific and engineering genius, the blueprint to mechanical marvels and monstrosities. But in recent years the 56-year-old magazine has been hard pressed to compete with the wonders of the Missile and Atomic Age; for nearly a year Chicago's H. H. Windsor family has been trying to sell Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,325,735)-Last week it found a buyer: Hearst Corp.'s magazine division.-The buy was shrewdly calculated; magazine circulation is up 23% since 1950, while Hearst...