Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore, which had prayed for the Confederacy while Union troops held the city during the Civil War, reasserted its sentimental attachment to the South. Confederate flags flew and V.M.I, cadets paraded in full dress. Reason for the celebration: dedication of what Baltimore believed to be the "only double equestrian statue in the world"-a bronze work depicting the parting of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson on the eve of the Battle of Chancellorsville. In the dedicatory oration Douglas Southall Freeman, author of Lee's Lieutenants, called them the "greatest American combat team...
Strong denunciation of the new House Un-American Activities Committee "Anti-Communist" Bill came yesterday from Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union...
During the Civil War, Sodality membership shrunk, but it was not until 1875 that the organization again came close to the rocks, and this time, the Faculty was the villain. In that year, a resolution was passed by the Faculty prohibiting Pierian from giving any concerts for money. Revenue from concerts has always been an important and necessary part of Pierian's financial set-up, as, like all other Harvard organizations, it has never received any money from the University...
Editorially, the slow-footed Enquirer is outboxed by the nimble Scripps-Howard Post, which recently backed a successful local campaign to keep proportional representation, over Enquirer opposition. And it still suffers from typographical schizophrenia: modern headlines adjoin archaic one-word holdovers of Civil War days. But the Enquirer can afford to move slowly; it has a monopoly on the morning field. There was a fair chance that the Enquirer's trustees had put too high a price on the paper. Bids, due May 15, might not come within a mile of the $10 million the trustees hoped...
...there would have been no Fascist Spain. Franco placated the Führer by refueling Nazi submarines with U.S. oil, giving German spies a free hand, and turning over the Spanish press to Axis propagandists. (Hitler had kept an itemized bill for his aid to Franco during the Spanish Civil War; Franco made payments on it all through World War II with U.S. food and oil and Spanish strategic materials which, he told the Allies, Hitler would...