Word: sion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four months ago Clyde R. Hoey, then Governor, and fellow board members adopted the Warren book, rejecting a more scholarly work written by Professors A. R. Newsome and Hugh T. Lefler, of the University of North Carolina, and recommended by the State Textbook Commi sion (educators...
...recent sluggishness of the stockmarket, despite soaring production indices, is evidently deeply rooted in Management's long-range mistrust of the defense hypodermic. This mistrust was confirmed by the Forum's feeling on whether now is a good time for business to expand: 26% thought expan sion unjustified by present conditions, 61% saw it justified in war industries only...
...CRAZY HUNTER - Kay Boyle - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). The setting of these three short novels - with one excur sion to Capri - is nonbelligerent England. Most readable, least notable, is a horror study in which a piteous, pathic U. S. jazz-player meets a fetid little Cockney girl, blunders into desperate trouble through circumstantial evidence. Another, The Bridegroom's Body, draws sinister parallels between human emotional patterns on an English estate and the serpentine behavior of mating swans. Finest and most ambitious story is the title-piece. The crazy hunter is a defective gelding. Over the issue of his life...
...Defeated, by the one-sided vote of 322-to-49, a motion to condemn Russia's at tack on Finland as "a clear act of aggres sion...