Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the swarming professional Brain Trusters, CCC's director was as a potato bug among dragonflies. "Why, most of my clerks are better educated than I am," Robert Fechner used to say. He quit school when he was 16, worked in a railroad machine shop, then wandered to Mexico, Central and South America and back again as an itinerant machinist. He fought through a losing general strike in 1901 for the 9-hour day, was elected in 1913 to the general executive board of the A. F. of L. machinists' union. He sandwiched in a year...
Because he believes Conservation is CCC's first & foremost aim, Director Fechner also believes that for his corps the spade is mightier than the sword and a better weapon. Should U. S. youth be militarized to build up Army reserves, he would have Congress: i) forget the work program and go in exclusively for military training, 2) would draw trainees from all classes of the population. If this would make a final mockery of William James's peaceful idea, it would at least fulfill the James idea of making use of gilded youth...
Madrid had held out for two and a half years. But Madrid lies on a plain and behind a deep-cut river bed. Barcelona lies defenseless in a cup. Furthermore, when the Rebels tried to take Madrid in 1936 they were far inferior in numbers and not much better off in material than the defenders. And the defenders of Madrid were spirited militia, men like the "iron" regiment which snatched up its arms from the dead. The Republican Army that was forced back on Barcelona had been outnumbered and smashed for five weeks by the greatest concentration of war material...
Meanwhile, the Hahn report must have brought commingled pleasure and discomfiture to his colleague, crusty old Physicist Johannes Stark, who heads the Reich Physical-Technical Institute. Johannes Stark whoops up the Nazi idea that physical experiment is better than theory, regards theory as "Jewish" in spirit. Hahn's high-voltage explosion was produced by experiment, but accidentally; and it could never have been evaluated or even recognized without the help of theory...
...number for a group is usually about twelve. . . . They are to have a corporate life. They must pray together, study together, act together." > Each group should elect a Leader, a secretary, a treasurer. "There was a purse-keeper amongst the twelve [Apostles]. For the purse-keeper perhaps there had better be special prayers." > A group should arrange early to hear from a priest about the Doctrine of the Mystical Body-which holds that with Christ as the Head, all Christians are members of His mystical body, and of one another. > It takes about three years to build an efficient Catholic...