Word: encompasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perry Miller, associate professor of History and Literature, expressed the belief that stereotyped schools of thought spring up immediately after events, and cited five definite theories on Hess's flight which encompass almost every rational idea of the motive of the No. 3 Nazi. These theories, he said, have changed relatively little since they were formed 48 hours after Hess's landing...
Headquarters of the conference will be in Dwight Hall on the Old Campus. The entire discussion will be divided into four sessions, two general meetings and two groups of round table meetings. Speakers at the general meetings will be those whose work encompass all branches of government activity, while the round table meetings will be confined to career work in specific fields of public activity...
...many cruelties and crudities and barbarities of less civilized eras") and saw them menaced by a Hitler victory ("the school of destruction . . . those who seek to dominate hundreds of millions of people in vast continental areas-those who, if successful in that aim will . . . enlarge their wild dream to encompass every human being and every mile of the earth's surface...
There is much more to the picture than this short review can hope to encompass. GWTW is certainly the best picture to strike this or any other town in many a day. Everyone should take at least a two-hour look-in on what Hollywood can do if it wants to. Mr. Selznick will have his cost and a handsome profit back before long, and the public will have had some fine entertainment. We think this a more than fair exchange...