Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think it accomplished just what I set out to do," said Republican Taft last week in sum-up. "Rather better than I thought. My general impression is that the people who are thinking at all are overwhelmingly on the conservative side. I talked with a lot of workmen and many of them don't have views one way or the other. Certainly they are not concerned about the Taft-Hartley law . . . There is no grass-roots objection, it all comes from the top." After one meeting, Taft remarked: "I guess they don't hate me as much...
...Holy Places. In spite of its truculent attitude toward U.N., Israel went ahead with preparations to receive pilgrims. On the Israel side visitors will see such Christian shrines as the Dormition of Mary on Mount Zion, the Cenacle where the Last Supper was spread, the Ein Karim home of John the Baptist, and Nazareth...
...Arab side, the Old City still looks much as it appeared to Godfrey de Bouillon, "Defender of the Holy Sepulcher," when he marched in with the First Crusaders almost 900 years ago. The Holy Sepulcher still stands, though in altered form. Everything around it has remained intact, including the Via Dolorosa along which Jesus climbed to Calvary...
...President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University made what he called a "heretical" proposal to bis trustees: abolish the campus eating clubs which for a quarter of a century had flourished proudly along Prospect Avenue. They were contrary to the "democratic spirit," said Wilson; they had become a "side show" which seemed "to be trying to control the performance in the main tent...
...four years of hammer-&-tongs competition for players and grandstand customers, the old, established National Football League and the brash new All-America Football Conference had almost succeeded in beating each other unconscious. To outside pleas for a merger, each side replied through gritted teeth that the other's conditions were unacceptable. Last week they finally came to terms in a hands-down victory for the National League...