Word: whiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"I note that you are going to Europe . . . While there, doubtless you will adjust the European situation. When you adjust it satisfactorily and return to your own country, I may write you again."
When the last defendant had been sentenced, lawyers got to their feet to make an impassioned plea for bail pending appeal. Judge Medina rejected their plea, ordered the convicted men jailed in Manhattan's federal detention headquarters until the U.S. Attorney General selected the prison where they would serve...
"If That's Heaven . . ." Ed roamed around Moscow for ten days. He said it was 90% slums. He said pregnant women worked on paving jobs in the streets while army officers walked around. Caviar, he said, cost twice as much in Moscow as it did in Indianapolis. Ed even...
A steady rain was falling when Castro awoke in Panajachel the next morning, and he decided to stay on another day. Twenty-four hours later there was still no letup, and streams on either side of Panajachel were swollen. Castro went to church to pray that the rains might stop...
As far as John Dewey is concerned, however, the world would have to decide the philosophical differences between him and Hutchins for itself. "Philosophy," he once wrote, "is of account only if ... it affords guidance to action." Today, his life is full of action, and it is hard for him...