Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Debate Council won its fourth consecutive contest last night when it defeated Boston University debaters on the subject, "Resolved: That an International Atomic Energy Commission should be established...
...when language courses were still optional, 53% of them chose German, 30% English, 29% French, and only 3% Russian. Now, with the study of Russian compulsory in all grades of primary and secondary schools, pupils are required to spend more time learning "the language of socialism" than any other subject except Hungarian language and literature...
...still unsettled point is the relationship between colds and allergies, though doctors admit that a layman doesn't much care what ails him, so long as he is promptly cured. Dr. William J. Kerr of the University of California's Medical School, a top authority on the subject, believes that only 25% of cold symptoms are due to allergy. Arguing from this thesis, he takes a dim view of anti-histaminics as cold cures. Said he: "To get one shot out of four wouldn't be very good hunting-and it's lousy medicine...
...week starting Friday, Nov. 11. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...
...Circolo Italiano Prize of $25 for the best essay of from about 1500 to 4500 wards on a subject "in the general field of Italian culture...