Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long years of devoted service to Socialism, Otto Grotewohl had never been a real big shot. But when the Russians moved into Germany, they seized on Grotewohl as a handy tool in their drive to capture the German Socialist Party. In a big shot's place at last, Grotewohl presided over the 1946 "merger" of the Eastern zone's Socialist and Communist parties into the new Socialist Unity Party, which meant in fact Grotewohl's complete surrender to the Reds...
...Visser 't Hooft. Said Dr. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary,' who has spent the past two months in the Far East: "There's a tremendous void in the heart of East Asia. The ancient religions are unable to explain the revolutionary changes that are taking place, or have no adequate ideas or attitudes with which to meet them...
...heavy casualties, said Dr. Moyer, need not be. In the first place, four-fifths of the nation's gastric cancer victims are suitable cases, for surgery. If operated on in time, there would be high hope for the majority of them. But the surgery available in most parts of the country is not good enough: although half the patients now die, there are "islands" in this sea of mortality where only one patient out of 20 dies. Among such islands: the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota Hospital and Manhattan's Memorial Hospital...
...Manhattan's biggest bookshops, a salesman gestured cynically toward his Christmas customers. "Give them a fat historical novel and they'll trample every good book in the place to get to it." It was a familiar moan in the book business-even when the moaner had to raise his voice to be heard above his booming cash register. Yet as a summary for 1949 the judgment was too jaundiced. It was true that popular puddings were as plentiful as usual, with old practitioners like Frank Yerby, Marguerite Steen and F. van Wyck Mason tirelessly serving them...
...purpose of the plan is not to shorten the overall time required for the degrees of A.B. and LL.B., but to place fourth-year college work where it will do most good for a law student...