Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acting after Student Council protests revealed dust filled corridors and rooms in Claverly Hall currently under alterations, Dean Bender announced last night that students there would be transferred to the Yard for the rest of the term...
...little girl who last term cast doe-eyed looks at you from her seat two rows away isn't doing so badly now, thank you. At any rate, she isn't if she was a member of Radcliffe...
...last week's lifting by the Central Bank of all restrictions against the entry of foreign capital into Argentina. There was even talk of seeking a U.S. loan. For Peron, this remedy would have a bitter taste. He has boasted that by the end of his six-year term "not an inch of soil, not a breath of air" in Argentina would be alien-owned. Now foreign capital was to receive "the same treatment and rights enjoyed by Argentine capital...
Marshal Henri Pétain of Verdun and Vichy, now serving a life term for collaborating with the Nazis, was reported looking poorly. But when a Chamber of Deputies committee tried to question the old soldier about his War II activities, he got his back up. "I know nothing," he gruffed. "I am 92 years old. If you want to question me on the war of 1914-18, I can answer you. I won that...
Author Costain lays on the local color thick-duels, tortures, trials, Valerie rising naked from her bath, and plenty of antique dressmaking chatter. As lavish with his color, Author Shellabarger is much the subtler hand with characters and story-though in this field "subtle" is strictly a comparative term. Prince of Foxes begins in Venice, with Andrea Orsini bowing low before the lovely Camilla degli Baglioni. Foxy Andrea can tell that Camilla is una illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid...