Word: spent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roman J. Halla, 23, arrived in the U.S. a few weeks ago after a year spent as a D.P. in Germany, where he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army while waiting for his chance to come here. When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, Halla was a student at Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University, from which he was promptly expelled for demonstrating with other students against the new Communist regime. At this juncture, foreign publications, including TIME, were admitted to the country but never reached the newsstands. Halla believed the bundles were destroyed when they reached...
...best explanation of the calamitous 1949 season was simply that more people were climbing, and having more accidents. Another explanation: the long, hot summer had dried out slopes, increased the number of avalanches. One 18-year-old Briton who spent three days trapped on a mountain ledge-and lived to tell about it -was Timothy Smiley of Aberystwyth...
...little mud wall around the ledge to protect me from the wind. I read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...
There Margaret Clapp spent most of her time. "She's in there reading," one of her secretaries told visitors. "Reading reports and such. She's getting educated." Last week, after two months of getting educated, Wellesley's president was ready for her first big opening...
...Villard, 77, crusading editor (the New York Evening Post, 1897-1918; the Nation, 1918-32); in Manhattan. Heir to the diehard liberalism of his grandfather, Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and to the fortune of his father, Henry Villard (one of the builders of the Northern Pacific Railroad), Editor Villard spent a lifetime plumping for such causes as civil liberties and pacifism, finally came to the conclusion that most of his heroes (notably Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, Al Smith and F.D.R.) had feet of clay...