Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symbol of Pride. The Chinese called her Ai Wei-teh ("The Virtuous One"), the nearest they could get to Aylward. As the years went by, Ai Wei-teh's fame spread, and she was often called in for help and advice by Chinese officials. But one thing troubled her...
Over at the rival New Orleans States (circ. 96,228), anguished City Editor Walter Cowan called Society Editor Eva Stewart on the carpet. She had heard about the story, but had not gotten around to checking up on the prince. Cowan decided that it was not too late to start...
The trouble with the South, said Alabama's New Dealing Aubrey Williams in 1947, was that most of its brains and talent went North. That, he added modestly, included himself. By faithfully serving Franklin D. Roosevelt in the left wing of the New Deal, Williams had risen high in...
Williams has built up the Farmer chiefly by weeding out the gone-to-seed circulation lists, and harvesting new readers with contests and prizes ranging from Bibles to tractors. Says he: "I don't think very many people down here buy magazines because they want the magazine. They get...
The pragmatists, who had had a vast influence over education in the U.S. for many decades, held to their basic proposition that men must study the facts at their command, test them in the light of science and their own experience and plan their conduct accordingly; it was up to...