Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall's marble Civil War heroes may well blink with surprise today as all estimated 4900 undergraduates pase in review, starting at 8:30 o'clock, to sign up for the '47 spring term. Coupled with the 446 envelopes picked up last week by new arrivals, today's registration is expected to hold enrollment figures close to the 5402 record set this past fall...
Both among diplomats here and at Nanking it was viewed as a likely signal for the start of the full scale civil war long brewing between Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist government and the Communists in North China...
...less risky than a protracted struggle between two relatively even forces. The withdrawal will have the merit at least of shaking the reactionary view that American guns will always be handy to back their troops. In any event, the Marshall mission was a whole-hearted attempt to keep civil war from adding more dead bodies to the already full canals--perhaps more than more man was necessary...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Discussion (by Author Carl Van Doren, Cornell English Professor David Daiches, Educator Lyman Bryson) of John Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government, concluding a series of 16 broadcasts on the growth of Western society...
...every day, because of the teacher shortage, hundreds of classes go "uncovered." i.e., teacherless). Many schools are shy of up-to-date textbooks. A $38,000,000 building program is still largely in the blueprint stage, and schoolhouses are dangerously decrepit (said Mayor William O'Dwyer: "Those old Civil War firetraps are ghastly"). Above all, parents don't want their boys & girls to pick up the "dese-&-dose" accent of many students, or the morals and manners of "Dead End Kids" who are often the leaders in some of the city's schools...