Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proving itself "the best bargain the American people ever bought." Time to Breathe. ECA's most spectacular birthday present was the North Atlantic pact; it marked the flowering of economic cooperation into a joint plan of Western defense against Communist aggression. As Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "In one year EGA has done more for European unity than was accomplished in the preceding 500 years." The finest birthday testimonials came from the people EGA had succored. Eighteen months ago the 10,000 workers of Europe's biggest tire plant (Fort Dunlop) at Birmingham, England, faced...
...which for good or ill are indispensable to 20th Century life, as in "liberal" colleges whose curricula have been invaded by petty specializations of all sorts. Said one speaker: "The modern university catalogue, with courses in everything from prenatal care to funeral directing, looks like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue." Sir Richard Livingstone, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, summed up: "To know one's age, and nothing else, is useless. We must be able to criticize and judge it ... Otherwise we risk being captives of our own day and slaves to its attendant delusions...
...uncovered, two-story stage like Sir Laurence Olivier's version of the Globe in Henry V (but without Olivier's broadly stylized interpretation), The Masquers' performance gave fresh point to Shakespearean conventions demanded by a theater without scenery or a curtain: the numerous exits & entrances, the corpse-bearing processions, the scene-setting dialogue...
...DURABLE MONUMENT (312 pp.)-Admiral Sir W. M. James-Longmans, Green...
Some such emotion has crept into the work of most biographers of Horatio Nelson, England's No. 1 naval hero. Even the U.S.'s precise, levelheaded Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan allowed the legend of Nelson to skew up the accuracy of his portrait. British Admiral Sir W. M. James (who spent 18 months during World...