Word: school
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact been born in Poland. His native city, however, was not Warsaw, but the small town of Slovuta, in Volhynia, a province which for centuries has been alternately Polish and Russian. Far from being a child of the working class, he was reared at the aristocratic Nicholas Officers' School in St. Petersburg. In World War II he commanded the armies that relieved Stalingrad, crossing the Don to close a ring around the Nazis' besieging divisions. In mid-1944 he headed the Soviet forces which ignominiously sat outside his "native" Warsaw while Polish patriots inside, having been signaled...
...Maria is fond of lilies and orchids, which she grows, and wild about bullfighting. Having studied in the U.S. for a year at San Francisco's Sacred Heart School, she would like to travel more, hopes to take up social work as a career...
...Cover, Thinking about the invitation from the dean of the Yale Law School, the 24-year-old instructor at Columbia University hardly knew what to make of it. Apparently the eminent dean, of whom he had scarcely heard, had taken some interest in an article the instructor had written touching on the law of evidence. Anyhow, it was a chance for a notable meeting that the young philosopher had no intention of missing. Putting on his most sedate black suit and black hat, he set out for New Haven to call on the distinguished gentleman who should, he thought, turn...
...about his job at Chicago. "I have no idea of revolutionizing it overnight," he announced at the beginning; but he soon seemed to be doing just that. "Why are you in such a hurry?" a professor once asked him. Replied Hutchins: "No successful president ever did anything to a school after his first five years...
...Real School." By Hutchins' own provocative standards, Chicago was. Anyone else might have been given pause by the fact that such universities as Harvard, Yale, Columbia and California, not to mention Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne, also existed. Actually, Chicago had been jostling about among the first four or five U.S. universities for quite some time...