Word: realm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norway's gaunt Haakon VII was a king with less than half a country last week as Nazi Blitzkriegers stormed through his realm and shot up his peace-loving subjects and their stumbling allies (see p. 22). Rome's Il Messaggero hopefully reported that he was about to board a British cruiser to seek security in England...
Several owners of faltboots (folding rubber Kayaks) have already signified their intention of joining the excursion. Also, it is viewed as within the realm of possibility that the Faculty will be represented in the person of Phillippe Dur '35, instructor and tutor in History and Literature, who is noted for being at home in the "wildwasser" of European rivers...
...enough for Hitler's workers-but not good enough for ours." Lord Stamp, Economic Advisor to the Government, is still for "voluntary methods." Because good words have been said for the Plan by Lords Balfour, Swinton and Glentanar, the capricious London Daily Express paradoxically headlines, "Peers Of The Realm Unite! You Have Nothing To Gain But Keynes...
...Carnegie people will turn over a picture of his store of knowledge, telling how he stacks up mentally with his fellows. Admittedly the exams do not test "the ability to express ideas in writing, skill in laboratory techniques, research ability, and originality." Admittedly they are experimental even in the realm of pure knowledge. But nevertheless they were drawn up by professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, who can't all be wet. And for three seasons the exams have been tried on first-year graduate guinea-pigs at those universities with some success...
Before and behind our armament of steel and concrete rises the spiritual armament of our people. It protects us against offensives in the realm of mind...