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"The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. [Progressive]"

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in
Germany
an American author, television commentator and marathon runner, best known for being the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry
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735357
in
Fort Wayne
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a large long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport
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in 1947
(literally the botanical term corolla or circlet of flower petals in English), but the phrase New Look was coined for it by Carmel Snow, the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar
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in 1947
in a Brooklyn laundry, where she was assigned to an ironing board
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in 1947
in
Brooklyn
She had never ironed and lasted three hours before she was dismissed
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in 1947
for the communist newspaper The Daily Worker
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in 1947
" I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth — which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations — that mathematical ideas originate in empirics."

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in 1947
" But, once they are conceived, the subject begins to live a peculiar life of its own and is … governed by almost entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas."

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750695
in 1947
in
Soviet Union
with his friend, the American writer John Steinbeck
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1023869
in 1947
in
Paris
It was a cooperative agency to manage work for and by freelance photographers, and developed a reputation for the excellence of its photo-journalists.
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1023870
in 1947
in
United Kingdom
was reformed as part of the Territorial Army, named the 21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists Rifles).
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749316
in
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
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in 1947
in
Argentina
for discovering the role of pituitary hormones in regulating glucose in animals
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on 3/1947
in
Yan
a symbolic victory
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