Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, 25, better known by her maiden name, Prunella Stack, best known as Britain's Perfect Woman because she heads Women's League of Health & Beauty (founded by her mother), announced in London that she and her husband, the boxing Marquess of Clydesdale, hope for a perfect baby in June. Said she: "I am keeping myself fit for the event...
Standpat Southerners deny such stories with heat and hatred; non-Southerners know too little to have any right to an opinion. Author Caldwell's taste for close crowding of extremes of cruelty, pity, irony, inconsistency and comedy, his occasional tendency to stack his cards, still further obscure these important facts: that the South is a country of incredible extremes; that for all his faults Caldwell is one of the best and fairest recorders of them...
...education is happier, learns better work habits, and feels himself more a member of the community, than the boy who is simply given the money he needs, without any productive service being required of him. Replying that a student can find better things to do with his time than stack books away, particularly if he is preparing himself for the "learned professions," Mr. Conant places himself in the other camp, and advocates straight financial aid of the Harvard National Scholarship variety...
Like its author, Through China's Wall defies classification. It is part exquisite travel book, part exciting history, part exotic philosophy. But above all it is a portrait portfolio of a race. In deft, humorous, economical sketches, it explains (better than a whole stack of dry-as-dust commentaries) why the Chinese people lose battles but somehow win wars. Typical snapshots...
...Last summer he married Rose Ewald, daughter of a distinguished Ger man theoretical physicist exiled in Ireland. At Cornell, Dr. Bethe lives with his wife and mother in a cottage in Cayuga Heights. He does most of his work in an easy chair in the living room. Tools : a stack of reference books, a batch of paper, a slide rule, a fountain pen, a powerful brain...