Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Mr. Gummere and Company weigh in the balance each spring the legions of high school presidents, football captains, and geniuses, they rely chiefly on the results of the College Board Achievement Tests. But along with the democratization and the testing remains an unbending remnant of past glories, a significant segment which finds the path of admission strewn with the roses of one of about twenty New England schools. The last class admitted to the College under normal peacetime standards--1945--found itself when it arrived in the fall of 1941 with the usual 50-50 ratio of public...
Boby Clark is a last remnant of the American entertainment idiom characterized by the minstrel show, the burlesque and the one-two-three kick. Clark and his walking stick continue in the manner of Weber and Fields and other footlight pranksters: a little man who speaks softly and brings down the house. Viewed apart from Clark and the situation comedy he provokes, "Sweethearts" is not worth the few tunes that motivate its singers. All too often the usual operetta tomfoolery involving disguised counts and misplaced husbands is a little hard to stomach. Clark, however, patches things up nicely by injecting...
...frontiersman's life in the rough & tough interior. As a result, the winning of Venezuela's West (actually its South) is still a century-old dream. An English colony failed at Betajoque, a French colony in Maracaibo; 30 miles from Caracas, the capital, is the blond, impoverished remnant of a 19th Century German colony. But the old dream lives on: now Venezuela hopes to push back her frontier with the brains & brawn of Europe's displaced persons...
...present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace...
NAVARRO'S IDEA UNIVERSE INSIDE EARTH [TIME, JULY 14] HARDLY NOVEL. THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS, FOLLOWERS OF [KORESHANITY'S CYRUS TEED], BELIEVED THIS EVER SINCE 1870. KORESHAN COLONY AT ESTERO, FLORIDA, NOW A MERE PITIFUL REMNANT, HARDLY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GALLANT EARLY EFFORTS OF HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS WHO COULD HARDLY BE CLASSED AS IGNORANT OR SUPERSTITIOUS...