Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...walked in," Dozier cabled us, "Eliot stood up, gave me his hand, and then threw me completely off my intellectual rails by asking: 'Does your family come from St. Louis?' I told him it didn't, but his remark got things down to the very human level. We talked for three hours and ten minutes-the longest interview Eliot has ever given a journalist...
...foreign affairs, the speech nodded politely to the U.S. and Canada for their "generous help," pledged continued support of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. By inference, it rejected Winston Churchill's campaign suggestion for renewed top-level talks with the Russians on international atomic energy control...
...Sherman Funk's "The Way to Travel." Funk rehashes the told, bruising discomfort of two squads in an Army six-by-six truck. His description of discomfort is no more vivid than that in a dozen war novels, but it is remarkable to find the "Advocate" writing on the level of the good war novel, and Funk's episode is bright and quietly humorous. The third of the good stories, "Candy for Souran," by Stephen Lewis, is a penetrating look at an abject little shop-keeper and his obese, immobile, and domineering wife...
...scholarship holders barely over 20 percent of the student body, the average amount of the stipends had to be lowered. Obviously other factors have arison that make it impossible now for the College to keep both the number and amount of its scholarship awards up to the desired level...
...rapidly rising hockey team and tailspinning Boston College will find a common level on the Arena ice at 9 p.m. tonight. A win for the Crimson would be great for prestige, but for the Eagles this is a crucial game...