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...your Jan. 30 report on Eric Partridge's Name into Word, you say: "[In 1759], France's finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, introduced a series of such niggardly reforms that his name became a synonym for anything meager, and finally for a portrait in barest outline...
...hated estate agent named Captain Charles Boycott. The method they used stuck, and so did boycott. A century before, France's finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, introduced a series of such niggardly reforms that his name became a synonym for anything meager and finally for a portrait in barest outline...
...Bombay WSSF funds go toward establishing student hostels in which the refugee students may live while attending the universities. Because of the expenses these refugees had to bear during migration and resettlement, many require financial aid to be able to afford even the barest necessities of existence...
...belaying rope for support is hold in disdain for the rest of his days. And you can't walk to a cliff by the back slope, you've got to scale the face. And you can't scale the face the easy way, you've got to climb the barest flattest, most unyielding wall in sight...
...good." His message was simple and uncompromising: capitalism, with its foundations in usury and its dehumanizing of man by machines, is just as bad for mankind as socialism with its depersonalizing state. Workers, he thought, should leave the factories and work the land in agrarian communities retaining the barest minimum of private property. Participation in modern war he held to be always wrong-all Christians should be pacifists. And the best state of all for a Christian, said Peter Maurin, is voluntary poverty...