Word: exceptionably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In U.N.'s short and stuffy life there had never been anything like the meetings of the Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press, gathered at Lake Success last week to erect an agenda for a full-dress conference next year. The ten men around the wide...
Bawdiest city: Butte ("with the possible exception of Amarillo, Texas"). "Whole neighborhoods [in Butte] are moldy, whole streets are rotten and decaying. The bars are preposterous and prodigious. I saw grandmothers teaching six-year-old kids to play slot machines."
Massachusetts leads the list of National Scholarships states with 11 awards. With the exception of one for Connecticut, however, no other eastern States are represented. Indiana leads the rest with five recipients, while Missouri, Washington, and Wisconsin have four apiece.
Thought v. Thought Police. During six years of war (1938-44) Chen ruled Chinese schools as Minister of Education. He supervised the big task of moving schools and universities from the coast to the interior, away from the Japanese. But while Chen encouraged practical subjects (a country at war needs...
Unitarians pride themselves on being the left-wingers of religion. Strictly avoiding a strict doctrine, Unitarians are far too independent to follow anybody's party line. Last week, the American Unitarian Association was relieved to rid itself of what seemed to be an embarrassing exception: the Rev. Stephen Hole...