Word: roades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory in the Senate debate seemed to go to the advocates of middle-of-the-road mildness, but crusty John McClellan's half-defeated thrust to put some bite into the bill left a mark of realism on the measure-a sign that the U.S. is starting to demand from organized labor responsibilities to match the rights and privileges hard...
...education drive produced the South's first great college extension service at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Its regular faculty members roamed far and wide, by World War I came near their dream of using "the whole state for a campus." Sample of their work: road-planning "institutes" at Chapel Hill (1914-19) kicked off the South's first big, well-planned highway system; statewide high school debates focused on the need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country doctors, inspired three medical schools (North...
Handsomely mounted on a white horse, India's Prime Minister Nehru last week cantered up a road in the hill resort of Mussoorie. Looking as fit as a much younger man and wearing a red rose in his buttonhole, 69-year-old Jawaharlal Nehru dismounted at Birla House, a large English-style cottage, and strode across the green lawn in the glittering afternoon sunshine that drenched the surrounding fir trees and the distant snowy peaks of the Himalayas. A line of Tibetan officials bowed to Nehru, presented him with an armload of ceremonial white scarves. The curtains parted...
...land, he would declare it "Sooi" soil until the bosses in Brussels and The Hague straightened things out. To stir the authorities, he put up posters saying, "Are Belgians Afraid of the Dutch?" When that did not bring results, he cut down three "Sooi" trees and barricaded the road with their trunks. When Dutch police arrived on bicycles to clear the road, they had to fight off Sooi's bloodhounds...
...road to Jack Barnaby's second consecutive Eastern Intercollegiate League tennis championship contains many obstacles, of varying size and difficulty. The Crimson takes on one of the biggest and toughest of these tomorrow, when it travels to Princeton to play a strong Tiger team...