Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying for the grants must have completed at least two years of college in this country, be unmarried, and be between 19 and 25 years old in order to meet the requirements of founder Cecil Rhodes' will. Those chosen for the scholarships have, in the opinion of the committee, achieved distinction in character, intellect, or a combination of both...
...British university standards, many "could not... either read or write...Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect, and to discriminate... they read rapidly, desperately, and far too much ... and the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will probably suffer for the rest of their lives...
Working under Phillips was something of an experience. According to Ellsworth Young, the present owner, "the store ran more on inspiration than system." For instance, Phillips had a fabulous memory for where he had put his books, and consequently felt no need for keeping them in any particular order on the shelves. The resulting jumble caused his assistants no end of trouble. Phillips also was as much concerned with having people interested in his books as he was with making sales. He would go to any length to turn up a particular edition of Dostoevski or an out-of-print...
...Hara may be an expert on décolletage, but she is no great shakes when it comes to acting in Arab movies. This became evident approximately half way through "Bagdad, in which Miss O'Hara is cast as a Bedouin of some means who migrates from England in order to live with her father. When she is informed that Pa has been bumped off by a local band of rowdies known as the Black Robes, nothing will do but she must get an eye-for-an-eye and all that by eliminating the ringleader of the boys in black...
...audience of about 40 heard him stress the importance of former colonial areas with their tremendous populations. These areas will turn to communism as a means of maintaining order, he stated, if they are not well-trained in democracy before being granted their independence...