Word: till
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very happy to read the Sept. 19 article on Lisa Fonssagrives, till I came to the spelling of my name. I have been called Gravelneck, Drizzleneck, Dirtyneck and Hydranthead, but never has my name been so slightly misspelled [Gravneck]. The accompanying picture shows you how badly I feel about the grave injustice you have done...
President Truman's Point Four program for developing backward nations has been discussed at high policy levels for months. But it was not till last week that two congressional committees brought the talk down to earth. From spokesmen for U.S. business, which was expected to supply the know-how and capital for the program, the committees got some plain talk on what was needed to make the program work...
...succeeding year has had to meet the Album deficit both out of its Class Committee funds and by paying a high price for the book. By serving a larger student body, "314" intends to cut the price of the book per copy and to secure more advertising for the till because of its larger advertising market...
...year-old Thérèse Bourgault, for five years unable to walk without crutches, stood before Robert. "You will be cured," he pronounced, and witnesses swore that she walked away without crutches. Not all supplicants found such response. With crowds on hand from 8 a.m. till midnight, the four children had to work in shifts, were often irritable...
That old storyteller Somerset Maugham expounds his literary theorizing to the full at the outset of "Quartet." It seems that during his lifetime he has woven his experiences into his stories till now, looking back, he can't separate the fact from the fiction. Perhaps it was this sort of profundity that led critics to label him "superficial" at the age of sixty. But what Maugham lacks in depth he often makes up for in speed. His talents as playwright often outshone his skill with fiction for the very reason that the man could make a clever little plot move...