Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often the value of parochial education has been injected into just this type of argument. There is no place in the case against the Ewing Township Decision for any conclusions about Church schooling. This form of education plays a vital role in society, but a role apart from the educational mechanism fashioned by the state for public use. Any mixing of the two structures, if only to prevent exclusion of any groups from the benefit of welfare legislation "because of their faith or lack of it," is mistaking state paternalism for true freedom. A state cannot be allowed to subsidize...
...Look at the dirt in that gutter. And the spots in that park ... no grass at all. And the bumps in this street. This town is falling apart, piece by piece...
...Morison reminds readers, no neat and compact affair. It was a mammoth multi-pronged attack, with the flanks about 900 miles apart. While the U.S. task force struck Morocco along the Atlantic coast, two separate Royal Navy task forces, carrying both U.S. and British troops, struck from the Mediterranean against Oran and Algiers. Ultimate success depended not only on the luck and timing of all three strikes, but upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans...
Wegener-they drift. Once North and South America were part of Europe and Africa. Hundreds of millions of years ago, they drifted apart and went their separate ways. The gap formed the Atlantic...
...continents drifted apart, Wegener maintained, they also drifted toward one another on the other side of the globe, pressing into the Pacific. Their Atlantic shores remained much as they had been before they separated; but the Pacific shores crumpled the earth's crust ahead of them, like the bows of ships plowing through thin ice. Thus were formed the still growing, earthquaky mountains which ring the Pacific today. When the crumpling broke a hole through the solid crust, hot "magma" burst to the surface, building a volcano...