Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot wrote these words at the beginning of the century when the problems facing university students were not so pressing as they are today. Such words are a perfect definition of the ideals of mid-Twentieth Century education as well. They deserve repetition whenever secular education is irrationally blamed for the sad state of mankind and morals. They are an excellent answer to these attacks on free educational institutions--attacks which must be answered before terms like "godless" and "immoral" assume a new, broader meaning...
...right, say it is a poor start. Say further, if you will, that the twentieth century has become a horror. Agreed that the "Age of Longing," the age of the Cold War and all that that phrase connotes is hardly an age worth living in, let alone preparing for by the hard study and effort...
When General Douglas MacArthur dramatically reminded Congress last April that "Old Soldiers Never Die," he set off wild scramble in Hollywood to sew up he phrase as title for a movie (TIME, April 30). Twentieth Century-Fox won the registration race, and the title was assigned o a story about an infantry platoon's galant rearguard action in Korea. Last week, with the film nearing completion, the company dropped the label as "not suitable." Slew title: Fixed Bayonets...
...Shane Leslie, cousin of Winston Churchill, dropped a genealogical footnote: "Six generations ago one of our ancestors, a Captain Wilcox, while riding home from the American Revolutionary War, met and later married a beautiful Indian half-caste. I believe that should make Mr. Churchill and me about one-twentieth Iroquois...
Last week Adams House proudly celebrated its twentieth anniversary. But imprisoned within its walls stands an even older structure, Apthorp House, with two centuries of tradition behind it. Neither the bold new buildings around it nor the passage of time have dimmed the colonial beauty of the three-story mansion that East Apthorp built...