Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temper of the assembly had already become evident, and it was not in tune with the temper of Pastor Shirey. On opening night it elected as its new moderator Dr. James McDowell Richards, president of racially integrated Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., and an outspoken antisegregationist. In a series of parliamentary moves it had blocked consideration of the minority report, had defeated anti-segregationists' efforts to delay a vote. Two hours after Shirey's plea, it reaffirmed, by a vote of 293 to 109, its year-old stand against racial segregation (last year's vote...
...Trumans showed off the living quarters of their comfortable home, oil portraits of the three members of the family and a painting by Sir Winston Churchill, presented to Harry Truman as a gift. The former President also sat down at Margaret's piano, wondering if it was in tune (it did not sound as if it was), and played the waltz he had taught her when she was first learning to play the piano. Then, as an encore, he played Paderewski's Minuet...
Tossed about the Channel like flotsam, Lord Jim's crew found little to occupy themselves but an occasional tune on the guitar by Bertie de Castelbajac and-of course-an occasional bottle of wine...
Among the eight speakers whose papers will be released Wednesday for study by those expecting to attend are: Dean Bundy; Andre Tune, professor of Law at the University of Grenoble; John Lord O'Brian '96, Washington attorney; and Charles E. Wyzahski, Jr. '27, judge of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts...
...when the Russians themselves agree. The current issue of Kommunist, the official magazine of the Communist Party's Central Committee, decided that there was no ducking that dreary fact any longer. Soviet papers, said Kommunist in a candid piece of selfcriticism, all sing the same dull tune in the same dull way. "If it were not for the titles and the names of districts, enterprises and collective farms, any one of these papers could be replaced by another one, and neither the reader nor even the editorial employees would notice. The majority of the articles are written...