Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monuments to Harvard men who died in other wars, Memorial Hall and Memorial Church, were objects of the same kind of controversy before and after they were built. Memorial Hall, built in 1870 as a Civil War memorial was used for many years as a 1000-man dining hall, but its idealistic purpose was soon forgotten. For the last thirty-five years it has been a comparatively useless, as well as meaningless, Harvard landmark...
...March 17, 1947 issue of TIME, there appears under the heading of "Aviation" an article dealing with the Civil Aeronautics Board and its members. The article describes me as a "onetime Washington correspondent . . . Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail under Jim Farley (his specialty: political chores...
...hours later the dead King's tall (6 ft. 3 in.), 45-year-old brother stood before the civil and military dignitaries of Greece and took the sovereign's oath. The assemblage rumbled: "Zito o Vassileus Pavlos" (Long Live King Paul...
...decaying at a rate which threatens to make a Struldbrug* of me if I persist in living; yet my mind still feels capable of growth . . . [if] the Life Force would give me a body as durable as my mind ... I might begin a political career as a junior civil servant and evolve into a capable Cabinet minister in another hundred years...
Elmer C. Easton, assistant dean of Engineering, Albert Haertlein, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering; Frederick V. Hunt, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics; and Robert V. Kleinschmidt, lecturer on Mechanical Engineering, will speak at the meeting. Gordon M. Fair, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, will preside...