Word: put
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Britain's institutions have been put to their most searching test in the past month by intensified bombings and tightened counter-blockade. Responsible editors and statesmen alike spoke out with stark frankness, and what they spoke was not altogether cheering...
Avowed purpose of the feverish membership drive which the Axis put on last week was to bring "peace" to Europe. The best way to do this, according to the polite little speeches with which the signers blotted their signatures last week, is to banish the last vestige of British influence from the continent of Europe. By week's end this aim had been very nearly accomplished. But there were still four Balkan countries whose attitudes, though not necessarily influenced by Britain, were in varying degrees unsatisfactory to the Axis. These were Yugoslavia, Russia, Turkey and brave Greece...
...this may seem elementary, but when Hooton steps over the threshold to humanity he finds that tender-minded idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out the window. They cannot deny that bodily differences are inherited, so they simply put body and mind in separate compartments. "This," says Hooton, "is the human declaration of independence. It has produced a social schizophrenia which is making a madhouse of civilization...
Financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., who put up a total of $1,200,000, the big dig in Athens laid bare the site of the Agora (ancient market place) lying at the foot of the Acropolis and the Areopagus. To get at this, the diggers had to tear down 365 houses in modern Athens. Some 250,000 tons of earth were removed from 25 acres. In Philadelphia last week, Dr. Shear gave the American Philosophical Society a summary of the finds...
...Biggest animal art show last week was put on by the dignified, Victorian-upholstered Pierpont Morgan Library, which elbows Manhattan's midtown skyscrapers like a Brewster barouche in a traffic jam of taxis. Said a high-nosed Morgan Library attendant: "I suppose it's a very good idea, at a time when human beings are acting so savagely, to show records of the behavior of animals." From its richly laden shelves, librarians had taken down the Morgan Library's best 9th to 19th-Century bestiaries, travel books, mythologies, collected fables, lives of animal-loving saints, set their...