Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against this anticlassical age Roxbury still stands like a small rock. All students are required to take five years of Latin, may take a sixth. The six-year curriculum also includes science, history, mathematics, English, Greek, modern languages. The only other courses are ethics for first-year students, cartography for seniors. Roxbury's present Headmaster George Norton Northrop, proud of his boys' consistent high marks in college entrance examinations, is calmly confident that the prep-school trend is "away from so-called progressive education." High point of the celebration this week was to be a performance...
...Well Done." The night was quiet, like the quiet of the night before the Fourth of July. In Atlanta there were more people in the churches than at the Atlanta v. Little Rock ball game. There was more noise in one six-run inning for the home team than there was in all the rest of the town...
...each two rounds of play. At Los Angeles' Wilshire Country Club, Pro Olin Dutra doled out two balls a week to members. At New York's Westchester Country Club, professional divers were hired to fish up balls from a lake bottom. At Atlanta's Black Rock Course-where a galleryite last winter offered Sam Snead a prewar ball for his match with Byron Nelson, in exchange for an autograph-draining of a big lake yielded 16,000 waterlogged pellets for reprocessing...
...conference, foreshadowed the patterns of the world organization. A 14-nation executive committee included the Big Three, France and China, lesser members tied more or less to the U.S. (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), Russia (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), and Britain (Australia, Canada. New Zealand). Everyone saw that on the rock-bottom security issues of the future, virtually every small power would be tied to one of the Big Three. But on minor and intermediate issues, the smaller powers kept their independence...
That Arthur Vandenberg, once a rock-ribbed isolationist, should thus become a man whose actions and opinions could do so much to shape the peace of the world was a sizable fact. He could have become the Henry Cabot Lodge of 1945, but he did not. Like the U.S., he had learned the hard way: the deadly march of worldwide war had shown him what was wrong with isolationism. It had not been a sudden change: like the U.S., he had come a long, slow way since...