Word: adoptive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Government were as intelligent as George Bernard Shaw, it would junk the English alphabet, adopt a new one of 42 letters so that each sound would have its own symbol. So wrote Shaw to the London Times last week. For years he has used Pitman shorthand to save time in writing. Said Shaw: "The fact that Russia, with its 35-letter alphabet, can spell my name with two letters [Wo ] instead of four may conceivably make it impossible for us to compete economically in the world with Russia...
...State Department is capable of setting one up. Furthermore, he doubts that Mr. Hull's minions have any way of getting their information before the people of the U.S. or their representatives. The representatives, in their turn, have no practical means of persuading the State Department to adopt their ideas on what foreign policy should be. The general result of all this is negation and sterility. With a world in flames, nothing vital is projected by the State Department for discussion by the Senate and House committees on foreign affairs...
London's bright Economist put the nub of British alarm, if not its central point: "If the Americans adopt a policy of intervention after the war, its value . . . will depend on its manners and methods. . . . If their intervention is to be unilateral, spasmodic and uninformed, the final result will be worse than straight isolationism...
...Middlebury debate will revolve around the subject of national conscription of women as in England. The official subject is "Resolved: that the United States should adopt national conscription of women for war service." Addresses will begin at 7:30 o'clock...
...would have been a few years ago. This year they plan to retire another $500 million of debt. Thus, by 1945 the backbreaking funded debt of $11.9 billion in 1930 will have been cut, through reorganizations and debt retirement, to $5.9 billion. Even if Congress refuses to adopt the ICC conversion plan, only a catastrophic depression year, far worse than 1932, could drive rail earnings under the $250 million needed to service this new streamlined debt...