Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallach has been attempting to prove, for the past two weeks, that St. Benedict's Center, headed by Father Feeney, has no right to GI Bill funds. According to the State Department of Education, an educational institution must meet four criteria for certification. Wallach claims that St. Benedict's fails in one of these--the criterion of academic fitness of its teaching staff...
...Call of the Hour. The civil authorities on whom Father Lombardi called last week had realized at last that action was urgent. A government law, passed three years ago, had granted Italy's peasants the right to move onto certain fallow lands-provided they first obtained permission from provincial committees set up to consider their claims. The committees have been working at a snail's pace; with his usual policy of trying to please everyone-the landowners as well as the peasants-De Gasperi had pleased no one. Last week the government was readying a new and better...
Some student and graduate clubmen howled in protest. The sophomores were infringing upon the clubs' "basic right of selectivity." But there were plenty of other clubmen who disagreed: 217 said they would themselves resign unless the sophomores had their way. By week's end, the sophomores seemed to be winning the battle that Woodrow Wilson lost. Said Chairman William Wallace of the Undergraduate Interclub Committee: "The clubs will try their best to fit their election machinery to the sophomore...
...Louis could have knocked his stumbling opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that Joe looks awful good; he sure is still a good...
Thanks to Comedienne Channing's song numbers and to some fast, youthful Agnes de Mille dance routines, the show achieves an air of liveliness in places. What it never achieves is any real feeling of the '20s, or the right nostalgia for them...