Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just about as profitable as to the non-dollar areas," Smithies points out. "I doubt if anything besides devaluation would have worked. And without devaluation the United States either would have to continue subsidizing Britain beyond 1952 or else abandon her to wrestle with the financial crisis that would seem bound to occur...
From the Pulpit. The Belangers had the support of Father Emile Bourassa of St. Patrice de Beaurivage parish. Said he: "Extraordinary things, that seem to come from divine powers, are going on." They recalled that when Father Edmond Pelletier of St. Sylvestre preached a sermon against the miracles, he became so ill that he had to leave the church. That did not stop him from condemning the "miracles" as "the most horrible exploitation of superstition I have ever seen...
Last week Father Pelletier had powerful backing. In Quebec City, after investigating the children and finding "no miraculous event was verified," Archbishop Maurice Roy issued a statement: "We remind all the faithful they must abstain from such superstitious practices. We ask particularly that priests . . . do nothing that would seem to encourage this so-called devotion." Through the newspapers Papa Bélanger quickly announced that his house henceforth was closed to visitors...
...five or six assistants in each of the ten dormitories. Under this system, which was started by the boys themselves to fill a vacuum left by a lax faculty some 250 years ago, Winchester's cloistered walls seldom echo to serious trouble. Says Headmaster Oakeshott: "The boys seem to accept the proposition that there are certain things which are just not done, not from a fear of punishment, but from a desire to conform to tradition...
Buckles & Boots. Teen-age styles are also changing. Everywhere, the girls seem to be wearing hip-hugging skirts, shorter and far tighter than last year. Sloppy sweaters are on the way out, tighter ones topped with ropes of imitation pearls on the way in. Said one San Francisco high-school girl: "The word this year is meticulous...