Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee reached the first stage of its study of minority groups at Harvard, with the statement that in College admissions and scholarships no discrimination exists. Meanwhile, it has asked the University to examine for itself whether there is discrimination against minorities in the Faculty...
...characteristic rolling prose, at once dignified, belligerent and unexpectedly twinkling, Churchill has told (in Vol. I) of the era of appeasement between the wars, sharpening the drama of the history with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, sharp cameos of those in the center of the stage, and pithy summings-up-generalizations like a bold sweeping together of muscular arms. In telling how Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop had been entertained at No. 10 Downing Street the day Austria was invaded by the Nazis, Churchill's finis to the episode is like an ax-stroke: "This was the last time...
Divorced. By Margaret Sullavan, 38, husky-voiced stage (Voice of the Turtle) and screen (Cry Havoc) star: third husband* Leland Hayward, 46, air-minded, airline-owning (Southwest Airways) Broadway producer and actors' agent; after nearly twelve years of marriage, three children; in Los Angeles...
...darkened grade-school auditorium in Miamisburg, Ohio, parents and pupils sat on the edge of their seats. On the stage, a white ping-pong ball, shot from a gun, struck a cluster of red and green balls. Lights flashed and the cluster split in two. At the drop of another ball, scores of other fluorescent ping-pong balls started dancing and popping around in a cage. In this entertaining way, the Monsanto Chemical Co., which ran atomic research at the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge until early this year, demonstrated the principles of atomic fission and a chain reaction...
...trails through the jungle, war between Private Red Valsen and Sergeant Sam Croft-war without dignity and without purpose, war for position or prestige, war to save face, or to satisfy an inward sense of superiority, or war that is merely the psychological ricochet of the greater conflict off stage...