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...each of the 105 test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example: 0. Russia's boss is: 1. Kerensky. 3. Stalin. 5. Stakhanov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACARTHUR STORY: Five Star Firing | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Workouts of the combined Harvard-Yale track team entered the tapering-off stage yesterday, as the 21-man squad readied for the first meet of its British trip Saturday against a select Oxford-Cambridge squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Track Teams Meet English | 6/21/1951 | See Source »

Nehru's proposal to gag the press aroused a storm of protest all over India. At week's end, stepping cautiously, Nehru referred his bill to a select parliamentary committee for action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Next to Godliness? | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Instead of exempting a few select, superior freshmen from the course, as in English A, all should take the first half year--if only to improve their style. These who prove to be especially proficient by mid-years should be allowed to drop out. These who "misuse English" after their freshman year would have to visit the Bureau of Study Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Wrinkle in GE | 5/17/1951 | See Source »

...House Select Committee on Lobbying felt that the C.C.G.'s activities are a clear case of attempting to influence legislation and demanded that Rumely reveal his financial backers in accordance with the law. Rumely refused, claiming that the C.C.G. was merely "educating the public to uphold Constitutional principles." Subsequently he was indicted for contempt of Congress; but the supporters of the Committee for Constitutional Government remain in hiding...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Brass Tacks | 5/17/1951 | See Source »

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