Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Games begin at 3:30 o'clock...
...begin to see, I believe, a definite Catholic spearhead rising to do battle with the embryonic Brotherhood-of-Man religion based on Communist lines. The early Christian movement met something of the same opposition, but probably a closer parallel can be found in the history of the rise of Mohammedanism...
They can, of course, and it is Tom Matthews' job to see that they do. His staff is familiar with patient memos which begin: "The Managing Editor views with alarm the following: 1) common misspellings (harrassed for harassed, etc.); 2) the use of retain for keep, slew for killed, reveal for anything less than the revelations of William Blake or Moses...
...little man who hates to write letters wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt. In it he stated his conviction that a controlled chain reaction of atomic fission (and hence the atom bomb) was now feasible, that the German Government was working on an atomic bomb, that the U.S. must begin research on the bomb at once or civilization would perish. Einstein enclosed a report by his friend, Dr. Leo Szilard, describing in more technical language how & why the bomb was possible. Franklin Roosevelt acted. Result: the Manhattan Project (TIME, Aug. 15), the bomb, the 125,000 dead of Hiroshima...
...forced to. We refuse to give them jobs in Marysville. Our city has eight major industries all of which refuse to employ Negroes. If we are really serious about this business of building a world of peace and establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, we had better begin right here in Marysville by making it possible for these people to secure jobs...