Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second and third-year graduate students will no longer take final exams if the University approves a report submitted last night by the Graduate Advisory Council...
Ruddy and jolly as his bright necktie, Roger Lapham, ex-mayor of San Francisco and boss of ECA's China operation, flew into Washington to report to ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman. The essence of his report was that EGA in China was doing all right. That is, economic aid was being delivered in fair amounts (299,065 bales of cotton by the end of September, 17,800 long tons of flour and 94,000 long tons of rice by early October). Lapham seemed to feel also that the whole job was being carried out in a businesslike, American fashion...
...Labor government, many of whose members are middle-class intellectuals, is acutely aware of the problem. So are Britain's social scientists. In a report published recently, the Nuffield Foundation (endowed by upper middle-class Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield) disclosed a grant of $80,000 to the London School of Economics for an exhaustive five-year study of the middle-class problem. Captained by Caradog Jones, M.A., a retired middle-class professor whose last big job was a survey of the depressed Merseyside area (around Liverpool), the researchers will study not only present problems but "how people rise...
...With the elections in the offing-and Democrats making hay with the case-Hull denounced the recordings as a fake, and demanded another grand jury. Governor Green's attorney general sent a special prosecutor to Peoria to handle it. Last week the second grand jury brought in its report. It indicted Reporter Link, Big Earl Shelton and the other two witnesses to the Petrakos interview on charges of kidnaping, conspiracy and intimidation. They had seized Petrakos, the jury charged, "for the purpose of getting a confession." The grand jury also accused the Post-Dispatch of bad faith...
...cardinal in the world. He was also the first Prince of the Church to celebrate a Mass that was broadcast (in 1928), and the first to fly in a plane (in 1929). When the Nazis and the Russians occupied Poland, Cardinal Hlond became an international figure. In 1940, his report to the Pope on the "dark, apocalyptic disaster" of German atrocities shocked the whole world...