Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phillips, Jr. '34, President of the Boston Council of the Navy League, will review the NROTC battalion this afternoon at 2 p.m. in recognition of the nation-wide observance of Navy...
...Explosive foxhole digger, a 5-lb. gadget that blasts a hole in the ground that is 3½ ft. deep, 3 ft. wide...
...mainland, larger than France and Belgium combined, Madagascar had a highly developed form of law and government before the Europeans ever got a foothold there. Its people are not African, being predominantly of Malayo-Polynesian stock. Nor are its plants and animal life. Madagascar is the home of the wide-eyed lemur, of some 800 known varieties of butterflies, nearly 300 kinds of birds, half of which are found nowhere else. It is also the home of the once proud Merina tribe, which conquered the island at the end of the 18th century...
Replies to the confidential poll were received from Southern ministers of 27 denominations-Baptists (31%), Methodists (27%) and Presbyterians (9%) predominating. Unsurprisingly, there was a wide regional range of opinion. Ministers in border states such as Delaware and West Virginia were almost unanimously in favor of integration. In Kentucky 89% were in favor, in Texas 87%, in the District of Columbia 86% and North Carolina 84%. In Arkansas and Mississippi only 54% were in favor of integration, and the least integrationist sentiment of all was in South Carolina, with only 50% in favor...
Attacking the Administration's foreign aid program, which is said had gained us "few friends and many enemies," Mumford called for a world-wide graduated income tax. Under this plan, the wealthy nations, led by the U.S., would support a large-scale, coordinated foreign aid program...