Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catha edulis fresh from the stems. Some travelers have said that qat is an aphrodisiac, but a Yemenite philosopher has set the world straight on that point. "It brings rest to the body and ease to the mind," he wrote, "which cannot be achieved in any other way, save, of course, through religion. It does not encourage eroticism-on the contrary. The man who is far from his wife takes qat in order to help him remain faithful to her." Yemenites grow the best coffee in the world (near Mocha), but they export nearly all of it, because they like...
...Save the King sounded through the house. Princess Elizabeth pulled her sister Margaret forward to share the acclaim. Ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-housed Britons turned toward the royal box and beamed...
...finds it almost impossible to breathe life. On the other hand, Anouilh's Creon is at once the least Sophoclean and the most successful person in the play. He is an astute, cynical worldling whose decree is merely a sop to the crowd and whose desire is to save his niece's life; and he is played with chilling elegance by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. If Antigone has ethics on her side, Creon has logic on his-which may explain why the Nazis raised no squawk...
...save money, Teachers College merged Lincoln and Horace Mann in 1943. The result was a comparatively un-daring, scholastically successful prep school which trained an intelligent, prosperous few for college. Teachers College decided that it could spend Mr. Rockefeller's $3,000,000 better on public schools, many of which were eager to experiment, and whose students were more representative. Horace Mann-Lincoln will shut next year unless parents can take it over and move it somewhere else. Said the school's executive director: "It's just one of those tragedies...
...days after the report appeared, the Wheeler committee sat down and revised the Wheeler bill, S 1253, which would permit railroads to reorganize themselves voluntarily under the ICC. In this way, the committee hoped that roads would save reorganization fees, and maybe common stockholders would get a better break. This week, while awaiting action from the Senate on its investigation resolution, the Wheeler committee opened hearings on the new bill...