Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of Canada's traditionally mild manners in world affairs, foreign-policy debates in Parliament have often seemed stale and tepid. Last week's scheduled debate gave no special promise of being any exception. Less than 48 hours before he was to lead off the discussion, Lester ("Mike") Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, was still in New York, at the United Nations meeting. On his way back to Ottawa he stopped off for the opening of Toronto's Royal Winter Fair. He came into Ottawa on a morning train, having written part of his speech...
This year's twelve, on leave from newspapers all over the country, are studying and reading under professors throughout the University, working on their own special problems...
...Nieman fellowship isn't all classes, and the newsmen take pride in their special activities, such as field trips to the United Nations, Faculty Club seminars, periodic dinners with outside newspapermen, and a writing seminar with Theodore Morrison. "And you can usually find at least one of us at every one of Harvard's evening speeches and forums," someone added...
...leagues will play through the first week of March, when the winners of each league contest will play each other. The Athletic Committee will award medals to the winning team and a special medal to the high-point scorer for the season...
...Hollywood, the drinking of bottled water has become a mark of class; only such lowlifes as $1,000-a-week writers drink tap water. Theodora thought that she would have something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...