Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London last week, two new books had Parliament, press and public wondering just how good British intelligence really was. Both dealt with the French Section of Special Operations Executive, which was responsible for dropping agents and weapons to the French resistance. In Death Be Not Proud* Author Elizabeth Nicholas considers the fate of seven brave young women agents of the S.O.E. Four of them-Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Sonya Olschanesky, Andree Borrel-were thrust into the Nazi crematorium at Natzweiler and burned alive. The other three also died in a concentration camp, if not quite as horribly...
...teaching school and the kids are waiting for a street light. Instead of just waiting around and having them get into trouble, you send them looking for four-leaf clovers or a special kind of grass...
Adams insisted, however, that a survey course in Christian culture must be subjected to the same complete freedom of inquiry as any other descipline. "Christianity cannot expect any special place or privilege," he said...
Sophomores Lake and Smith, in their first varsity contests, were singled out for special praise after the match, which the Crimson completed in near-record time, needing only 29 games, two over the limit, to overwhelm the struggling Cardinals...
Riesman, in his inaugural lecture, discussed the origins and problems of work in the field of national character, with special reference to the American case. He distinguished between two kinds of approach: the "classical," emphasizing generalizations that can be applied to any society; and the "romantic," concerned with a particular people at a single time and place...