Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward F. Burke: President of the Student Council, Treasurer of the Debate Council P.B.H., Speakers and Entertainment Committee, P.B.H. Cabinet, Co-Chairman of the Harvard Committee for the Report, Alternate Delegate of U.S.A., Executive Committee of Salzburg Seminar...
...Center's equipment also includes two sound scribers and three record players. Some students report as regularly as five times a week to use the linguaphone facilities. "American ears are just not turned to foreign languages," claims Mrs. Leggewie, and hearing these records seems to help them tremendously...
This week the atmosphere at the Winter White House began to quicken. Mrs. Truman and Margaret prepared to return to Washington. The President and his advisers got ready to draft the State of the Union Address, the Budget Message and the President's Economic Report. Written within sight of the sand, sun and sea, they would still have to bear, for delivery in January, the proper tone of heaviness and contention, so necessary to state messages...
...report made public last week did not go so far as to call the picture a fake, but the jurors had refused to authenticate it, and they took seven pages to give their reasons. The jury complained that "within the time available for the study, exhaustive analytical work was not feasible," and presented its final opinion "with full recognition of its own fallibility." The portrait looked suspiciously inferior to the Van Goghs on exhibition at the Met, the jury agreed. It was "strident in color, weak in drawing and uncertain in the modeling of the head...
After reading the report, Expert de la Faille issued a passionate defense of the picture, which he considers not just a Van Gogh but one of the master's "great works." And Dealer Reeves Lewenthal, who discovered the picture and sold it to Goetz last year, offered to refund its purchase price, reputed to be more than $50,000. Owner Goetz, who still liked the picture, had not yet made up his mind about keeping...