Word: recent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ousting of Communist members of the American Veterans Committee at its recent national convention in Cleveland will be the chief topic of discussion tonight as the ten-man Harvard delegation takes the stand for questions and explanation...
llya Ehrenburg, strong-arm boy of Communism's literary goon squad, got roughed up a bit himself. llya, charged the Yugoslav Writers' Union in a classic piece of Marxist doubletalk, had himself been wavering from the party line on art. In one of Ilya's recent articles, he had expressed certain "esthetic sympathies" and had supported ideas "with which leading Soviet critics and also our own do not agree...
...voices of Caesar and Napoleon, of Genghis Khan, George Washington and Pontius Pilate were never heard by posterity. But the voices of the captains, kings, heroes and villains of the recent past are on record and can be heard as long as the records last. The latest collection,* in an album of five Columbia records called I Can Hear It Now . . . , contains excerpts from famous broadcasts...
...column in the staid Gazette by Hardy ("Spider") Rowland, a cigar-chomping, self-confessed sinner who used to run a suburban gambling house. Spider writes about his bouts with "wobble water," refers to young girls as "quails," and brags about his encounters with the law. Spider wrote in a recent column: "I attribute my outstanding ability to kiss to blowing a bugle for a couple of years with the Boy Scouts...
President Conant in his recent book, "Education in a Divided World," favored a federal scholarship program. A similar project had also been outlined by President Truman's Commission on Higher Education...