Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among parents to find some means, however bad, to prevent unwanted births." The committee added: "It must be confessed that in the past Christian thought has, especially in the area of the family and its relationships, often clung to tradition without taking into account new knowledge. In the current age, God is calling upon us not to desert the eternal Christian truth but to apply it to the changing circumstances of the modern world...
Sociologist Jack Randolph Conrad of Southwestern at Memphis (enrollment: 651) was asked to help suggest the best possible courses for the Scientific Age. His answer: look to the Stone Age. The most basic course, he said solemnly last week in the school's alumni newsletter, should be "introductory survival technology." Items: "How to make acorn meal, how to make simple traps, how to tan leather, how to make simple tools and weapons from stone, how to smelt ore, how to find safe drinking water, how to recognize poisonous plants, how to keep an infant alive without milk...
...labor shortage has made refugees from East Germany welcome guests instead of mouths to feed. Many German employers keep fulltime agents at the refugee reception centers; they hire about 7,000 working-age refugees a month. Supplementing these immigrants, the government itself maintains a recruiting office in Italy, this year has obtained 15,000 Italians to work in Germany, in addition to 10,000 who came unassisted...
...himself. Writing his Memoirs, near 70, he wryly discussed the illness "which the Italians call mal français." Wrote he, sounding puzzled: "The greatest part of my life was spent in trying to make myself ill, and when I had succeeded, in trying to recover my health. [Now] age, that cruel and unavoidable disease, compels me to be in good health in spite of myself...
...make the way for our new age...