Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement continued to say that apart from its implications for academic freedom, such a policy might reduce the effectiveness of scientific research, drive away brilliant students, reduce the free flow of ideas, and finally,".... alienate scientists, discouraging them from participation in government-sponsored research, thus retarding the progress of work vital to the national safety and welfare...
Oldtime Cinemactress Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven, 1927) and Designer-Husband Gilbert Adrian arrived home safe & sound after a six-week safari through Darkest Africa, just in time to catch a breathless Vogue preview of their trip: "Apart from several happy forays into Abercrombie & Fitch's Dr. Livingstone department, neither of the Adrians had had any experience as explorers. Their plans, not to shoot, but, rather, to admire the animals ('an enormous love of animals is our principal motive') modified the equipment situation somewhat . . . There would be a few days in Nairobi where dinner dress would be needed...
...down his throat in such weather [looking] like a partially unravelled bird's-nest." As Dickens explained himself later, he was "penetrated with sorrow" for the family of the dead but, at the same time, threatened with "convulsions" at the sight of the living. He nearly blew himself apart with simultaneous spasms of misery and hilarity...
Fielding, which has been the strongest point of the Crimson nine, fell apart like a vintage roadster yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field, and by the time the parts were pieced together again Holy Cross took its second win from the Harvard baseball team...
...freshman nine's defense fell apart again, but the Yardlings rallied for four runs in the ninth inning to down Worcester Academy, 8 to 7, in Worcester yesterday...