Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most spectacular change in the scenery was the memorial for the Civil War dead that was being built beyond the Yard on the College Delta. Memorial Hall was a beautiful example of neoGothic architecture, and it was useful, too, containing two badly needed items: a large dining hall and a theatre...
...another committee hearing, special attention was paid to the economic plight of U.S. postmen. Before a Senate Civil Service subcommittee appeared beauteous Mrs. Jeanne Bolen, mother of three and wife of a Washington letter carrier. In a few brief minutes of testimony, she showed the Senators what inflation is doing to all people on fixed salaries. She reported that even though she does all her own housework, her annual budget adds up to $3,274.71, including $49 for her husband's work shoes, but nothing for recreation or emergencies. Yet Mr. Bolen makes only $3,100 a year. Added...
...European championship only a practice workout for her big try in next month's winter Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland. But Prague's newspapers burned up a month's supply of flash bulbs photographing her on ice; even the Communist Rude Pravo shunted the Greek civil war to an inside page. At the finale, the 12,000 spectators, many of whom had paid scalpers' prices for tickets, cheered hard for "Scottova...
...beginning. At 46, Hubard became obsessed with the notion that Houdon's marble bust of George Washington ought to be cast in bronze. He built his own foundry, spent seven years and all his savings to make six reproductions of the bust. At the start of the Civil War he tried to recoup his losses by turning his foundry into a Confederate arsenal. He began experimenting with explosives and blew himself...
Electric Shock. In California, the U.S. Department of Justice named General Electric, Westinghouse and eight smaller electric companies in civil and criminal indictments. The charge: violating the antitrust laws by fixing prices of electrical equipment in the Far West...