Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of separate but equal education for races. Under the recently passed Bantu Education Act, natives will get education so unequal it is almost primitive. The Act will place natives in segregated schools run by the Native Affairs Ministry, whose avowed purpose is to teach only the "agrarian arts": soil care, cattle herding, and health. Somewhat more important is the implicit aim of teaching the native to accept his role as an inferior creature...
...dogma the notion that man is mere animal, condemned by nature to acquire the characteristics of his environment. Khrushchev tested the theory in his agrogorods. Just as the Soviet factories had produced a "new Soviet man" (e.g., Khrushchev), so he believed that the agrogorod environment would develop a new agrarian robot divorced from the muzhik's "old village backwardness...
...Diet. His Cabinet is the most conservative since World War II. But it is only a caretaker government until the next election, probably in March. Tuomioja's real significance is that he plans to run the country without the help of ex-Premier Urho Kekkonen, the able, unpopular Agrarian who has bossed every Finnish cabinet since...
When the armies of Mao Tse Tung first swept down from the north of China, there was a sentiment akin to satisfaction in many non-Communist, liberal circles. Favored among the terms describing the revolution were "agrarian reform" and "the real will of the Chinese people." Supposedly, the Chinese communists were fairly decent reformers who were completing China's fight against Japanese domination by ending the joint rule of Chaing Kai-Shek and corruption...
Guatemala's Communist-line Government swung its machete again last week, slicing 174,000 acres from the United Fruit Co.'s Atlantic Coast banana plantation for division among peasants under the new land-reform law. Earlier this year, the Agrarian Department had hacked away all but 66,000 acres of United Fruit's 300,000-acre Pacific Coast plantation (TIME, March 9). For the Atlantic Coast land, which the company values at $3,500,000, the government proposes to pay $570,000 in 25-year bonds...