Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a three-year study, Past President Daniel Chadwick of the Arizona Rural School Association was able to shed some light on what sort of youngster wins national spelling bees. Of the champs questioned, 128 came from public schools, 38 from parochial and three from private. Far from being freaks, 128 winners were rated all-round excellent by their schools, and 94 listed some form of sport as their favorite hobby. ¶ Appointment of the week: Franze Edward Lund, 47, president of little (700 students) Alabama College, to succeed the late Gordon Keith Chalmers as 17th president of 133-year...
...took his shoes off for the occasion. There had been considerable nervousness over how President Eisenhower would observe the Moslem custom of removing shoes on entering a mosque. Grey cotton slippers had been prepared to slip over his shoes, but Ike decided to go all the way, shed his new black oxfords before he put on the slippers; Mamie took off her white pumps and stood in her nylons. Then they stepped across the threshold on to a carpet sent to the Washington mosque by the Shah of Iran...
Invited to shed some light on why Director John Huston stomped off the set of A Farewell to Arms in a rancorous farewell to Producer David O. Selzniclc last April, Farewell Scriptwriter Ben Hecht smiled the smile of a man who can distinguish the buttered side of the bread, shed only cigar smoke: "Ah, there is an old Chinese proverb that is the best clue to the incompatibility of David and John: 'When two eagles fly off together into the sky and disappear into a cloud, who can say which flew the higher...
...former colonial (bwana), permit me to congratulate you on James Whitmore's photographs of central Africa [May 20]. They shed new light on what is frequently called the dark continent...
...welcomed Chou En-lai to Pnompenh last November -but then became alarmed at the Communists' evident strength in Cambodia's economically powerful Chinese community. Recently, shocked by Russian intervention in Hungary, Sihanouk told his people that Communism is servitude, added: "Polish and Hungarian people have preferred to shed their blood...