Word: spells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit stays up much longer, the pressure of alumni sentiment will probably make it as permanent a fixture as Memorial Hall. Lamont librarians must act fast in removing it; its benign presence is fast becoming as pernicious a part of the library's spell as the bright oak wood-work and the hum of the fluorescent lights...
Governor Furcolo's appointment last week of a seven-man commission authorized by the 1957 Legislature to study the question of capital punishment may eventually spell the beginning of the end for that penalty in the Bay State. If abolition is realized, it will be a much-delayed step towards modernizing our penal codes...
...French reserves nearly a billion dollars a year. For almost three years (since November 1, 1954) France has been fighting in Algeria for a fictional Overseas French Union and for the principle that France is still a great nation. As Eric Sevareid said last Sunday, "Loss of Algeria could spell the end of France as a top-ranking power...
Caught cold by this counterstroke, Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming could only cite the "formidable difficulties" in the way of Thorneycroft's plan. Spokesmen for Canada's automobile, textile and electrical-appliance industries quickly and hotly seconded him. Fleming thereupon hastened to spell out far more specifically than ever before what his government had in mind in making the original proposal for a 15% shift. Canada, he said, would switch all possible government purchasing from the U.S. to the U.K., would send a high-level trade delegation to Britain, and would consider lowering barriers against purchases...
...Anderson and Tom Hill will start at the guards, and Glen Nelson, Chauncey Walker and Pete Eliades will spell them. Eliades may see double duty, for he can be used behind Bob Foster and Tedo Francis at center...