Word: place
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changing of place at a hundred miles an hour . . . will make us one whit stronger, happier or wiser...
...Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them then. Due in federal court for sentencing this week, he was expected also to resign from Congress, to let a better American take his place...
Harvard's Joe Kozol meets the same man he decisioned last December; MIT has a New England freshman champ in 128-pound Larry Foley, but Foley injured a rib during Tech's 22-12 win over Tufts last week and is not wrestling today. His place will be taken by a man who was pinned by Dave Smith last year...
Recent action by the Social Relations Department in suppressing irresponsible undergraduate polling has raised larger issues of the growing responsibilities of social science. Infant branches of learning, before they reach maturity, are sometimes given to extravagant claims and methods in an effort to win a place in the sun of public recognition. Only age brings tentative wisdom to eager disciples of new faiths...
...Lenore Lonergan play the comedy leads. Tobins tells ancient jokes, postures, grimaces-but fails to entertain. Miss Lonergan, by far the superior performer, is sometimes able to make the audience believe that what it sees and hears is clever; but when she leaves the stage, apathy takes her place. Jack Cole and his troupe of dancers are occasionally interesting; more often they merely wiggle their hands and chase one another in circles...