Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a few drinks, was given to recalling in glorious terms a little entertainer in Kenya who was once very funny with her Swahili monologues. In case this worthy woman is still alive, and out of respect to my uncle, I'll only go so far as to say that there is no man or woman on the English-speaking stage (movies and radio included, of course) as consistently funny as Beatrice Lillie...
Those favoring the bill for federal ownership concentrate their views on the Supreme Court decision. They say that since the states never owned the land the states have no rights to be considered whatever. Since the United States has "paramount rights and full dominion" in this land, why should the government give the land away? How can the federal government, they argue, give land in which all the states have an interest to three states? This, they say, would be a quitclaim, and they see no reason...
...ideas, some of them quite effective. Part of this effect, however, was lost by repetition in the opening Maestoso section of the Fantasy, which seemed somewhat too long. The handling of the two-piano combination is quite successful, and the performance by Luise Vosgerchian and Des Marais was, to say the least, authoritative...
...that was altogether heartening. It was also heartening that a man like Gerhart Eisler was able to speak in Harvard University. Officials in many institutions would have been horrified even at the thought of giving a lecture hall to an international Communist. ("What would the alumni say? What would the conservative press say?") Harvard's administration happily disregarded these and other outside pressures; Harvard undergraduates had the right to listen to Eisler or to stay away from the meeting...
Since December the experts say that the Crimson has shown far greater relative improvement than any other hockey team around, but at the same time the Engineers have gained. Limited as to material and practice time, MIT has consistently been a fighting unit and has played several very close games against stronger rivals. Monday night the Engineers held Brown to a slim 5 to 4 victory...