Word: rested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Arts Foundation was making good on its promise to keep Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius (Finlandia, Valse Triste) in stogies for the rest of his life. Anticipating his 84th birthday Dec 8, the foundation started air-expressing 84 boxes of cigars to his forest cottage near Helsinki...
About two thirds of the tutees are taught in groups of ten at the settlement houses. "The rest are receiving individual attention either at the agencies or in their own homes," said Oettinger, "though occasionally we have exceptions like the two youngsters in the polio convalescent ward of the Childrens' Hospital we are now teaching...
...could not... either read or write...Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect, and to discriminate... they read rapidly, desperately, and far too much ... and the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will probably suffer for the rest of their lives...
...Radcliffe won't be admitted to Lamont classrooms because, Metcalf said, "you just can't put girls in one part of the building and not in the rest...
...world's history, we are enjoying in this country more abundant material benefits than can be found elsewhere at any time. Not everyone is fully provided with the necessities of food, clothing, and shelter. Not everyone has employment. But taking the country as a whole and taking the rest of the world as a whole, the percentage of Americans who are suffering real deprivation is small indeed as compared with other peoples, and the percentage of those who are living in comfort, who enjoy the possessions of such luxuries as automobiles and radios, is far, far beyond that ever seen...