Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civil service records, bared at this time, told nothing of his Navy enlistment. Newspaper accounts showed he had appealed for discharge to a state governor, two senators, and an admiral...
...there are many factors which qualify General Marshall for the job so there are several which severely disqualify him. First and fundamentally, he will be a military man in a civil post. As deTocqueville observed over a century ago, officers, in democratic armies "contract tastes and wants wholly distinct from those of the nation, a fact which may be thus accounted for: Among democratic nations that man who becomes an officers severs all the ties that bound him to civil life; he leaves it forever, and no interest urges him to return to it. . . . As the wants of an officer...
...National Institute of Arts and Lecturers elected to its ranks last week William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, emeritus. Professor Hocking will return to the University next term for the first time since his retirement in 1943 as William James Lecturer...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. Speakers: Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman James M. Landis, CBS Adviser Lyman Bryson, Cornell University English Professor David Daiches...
...Madrid by Franco's army foreshadowed the hell that all Europe was to suffer. Sooner or later, the rest of the world realized that Spain had been victimized, but it was slower in learning how Spain had got herself in for it. The purely Spanish background of the Civil War has never been aired enough, though Spanish historians like Salvador de Madariaga have insisted on its importance. One of the few books to put light on the background is this long autobiography by an exiled Spaniard. It is valuable because it reflects in great detail the peculiar corruption...