Word: upness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Explaining the report on the BBC last week, Committee Chairman Christie summed up: "If any member of the committee were asked if he considered suicide wrong he would say it was. Of course there are always exceptions. But in general, Christians-who are a minority in this country at present...
So in his Prioresse's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages. "In 1255," according to contemporary Chronicler Matthew Paris, "the Jews of Lincoln stole a boy called Hugh, who was about eight years old." After fattening him up...
Partially as a result of the story, things went hard for the Jews of England. Nearly 1,000 were jailed that year in London alone, Jewish property was confiscated, and many of them were executed. Little St. Hugh, as he was soon called,*received a pillared shrine in Lincoln Cathedral...
The more man learns about viruses, said the University of Minnesota's Epidemiologist Leonard M. Schuman, the more he has to learn about controlling them. And this circular motion has speeded up enormously. Up to 1947 only 60 viruses had been listed as causing disease in man, and a...
At Miami Beach there were opinions to fit every account. Said Louis E. Corrington Jr., president of Chicago's Southmoor Bank & Trust Co.: "Right now, money is the tightest I have ever seen it. It will be worse after the steel strike is over and companies start building inventories...