Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared to move to the U.S. where there were already colonies in South Dakota and Montana. But others, who still had some hope of democratic treatment at the hands of fellow Canadians, got ready to fight back. They argued that their holdings, 41 acres per head, were only one-tenth as large as their neighbors'. Said bearded Hutterite Peter Hofer: "We cannot live unless we get more land...
Teamwork & Absolute Love. "This service pointed up some of the weaknesses in the postwar version of the Oxford movement.* The first public confession can be stirring, but the tenth is likely to strike one as the same old thing. And the fatal suspicion arises that confessions are made not through humility but to persuade. They sound a little too much coached, perfected to the point where they seem artificial. ... At the same time, I found more good at Caux than critics had led me to expect. M.R.A. has cut away the theological language which repels the layman. If it falls...
...Perfect Marriage (Hal Wallis; Paramount) takes a minor domestic spat and blows it up into a very flossy parlor-&-bedroom comedy. On their tenth wedding anniversary, David Niven and Loretta Young admit out loud that the thrill is gone. They are irritated-have been, let's face it, for years-by one another's eccentricities. What's more, each detests the other's family. And there is that old, old argument about Loretta's continuing her career as a celebrated fashion editor...
Born. To Charles John Robert Manners, tenth Duke of Rutland, 27, youngest of Britain's nonroyal dukes, and the Duchess of Rutland, 22, ex-Mayfair model, once known as "the girl with the perfect figure": their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: undecided. Weight...
Edgar Bergen & Friend (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC) celebrate their tenth anniversary...