Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon could such a system be put in operation? The Civil Aeronautics Administration is already installing "Omnidirectional Ranges" to mark out the lanes. The chief component now lacking is a satisfactory instrument for marking out the blocks. A.T.A. says that the electronic principles to perform this service are already known. It hopes that its idealized blueprint will stimulate designers to put them to practical work...
...that kind of talk? It was "Ba Gu," said the Daily Worker last week. The Communist daily, an old Ba Gu addict if there ever was one, swore off the filthy stuff. Originally, said a learned note in the Worker's "Recruiter" column, Ba Gu was a Manchu civil-service test which "had no content at all but had to conform to very strict rules of form and rhetoric." Now the Chinese Communists were against it, and so> was the Daily Worker...
...teachers get CN $185,000 per month (about $15), so we are hardly able to live. ... I am unwilling to part from the Review, and I hope ... I may soon see it again. When? . . . Only when the terrible inflation stops, and there is an end to this pitiless civil war. Be this true...
...there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil."* Civil authority, however evil or foolish, said Luther, must be opposed only when it encroaches on the spiritual realm: "And you must know that from the beginning of the world there was rarely a prince who was wise and even more rarely one who was pious. They are usually the biggest fools...
...Despite the efforts of UNRRA, millions of Greeks are starving today. Thanks to the inefficiency of the government, Greece has no income tax, no rationing, and no price controls. The violent fighting between the rightist X-ites and the leftist EAM, if allowed to break out into full-scale civil war would mean the final tragedy for a whole people, whose heroism in the war against the Axis is excelled by no other. Interference in Greece by an outside agency of sufficient wealth and force, then, is imperative to the continued existence of the Greek nation...