Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the last war, from 1942 to 1946, the building was used by the School for Overseas Administration, which trained men in foreign languages (mostly Chinese and Japanese). It also housed a group of chaplains. After the war, Cannon House served briefly as a fraternity house and then as an International House for foreign students before they were admitted to the regular undergraduate dormitories...
...removed from the rolls of rented property and that summer it was completely renovated in preparation for the establishment of a center which might give Harvard and Radcliffe students, and their friends, and opportunity to continue beyond the limits of the classroom their efforts to understand and appreciate foreign cultures...
Last month, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky emphatically told the world that the peace-loving Soviet was using atomic energy for peaceful purposes "right now" (TIME, Nov. 21). Said he at Lake Success: "We are razing mountains; we are irrigating deserts." But in reporting his speech, Pravda made a significant switch: it quoted Vishinsky as saying only that Russia's atomic energists wanted to raze mountains...
...denounced the deputy's charges, prompting Prensa and Nación, which had not published the original speech, to print short resumes of it along with the President's reply. Roused by this action, Perón last week called his cabinet, the entire foreign correspondents' corps and some 50 local newsmen to the Casa Rosada's White Salon to witness one of the gaudiest theatrical scenes he had ever staged...
Christianity's foreign missions today face the "greatest crisis of [their] history," according to Dean Listen, Pope of Yale Divinity School in the current Christianity and Crisis. The main trouble is neither lack of funds nor manpower, but the "political, economic and racial revolutions in many parts of the world...