Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Means of readying runways for handling heavy ai planes were taught from 1942 to 1944 in Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Arthur Casagrande's School of Soils Control. Also set up was a Civil Affairs Specialists Training Program, conducted by Professor Carl J. Friedrich's School for Overseas Administration, under which men up to the grade of colonel were trained in military government procedures...
...time is an alphabetical variation of Greenwich Civil Time, a global time system used by navigators since the adoption of the International Date Line in 1884. G.C.T. runs for 24 hours, and is based on the position of the sun in relation to the prime meridian (Longitude 00° 00' 00") which passes through Greenwich, England...
...will have to pay twice, in effect-once to the Government in taxes, once to the physician. Medical practices may no longer be sold to other doctors, but will be bought by the Government, dealt out to applicants from needy areas. Doctors who join the system will earn a civil-service salary, plus additional small fees for each patient...
Although Britain's medical journal, The Lancet, approved the plan, the well-organized British Medical Association opposed it, reasserted their conviction that doctors should not be civil servants. Patient and doctor alike, declared the B.M.A., would suffer from the loss of professional freedom. Some commentators grimly pointed to the health plans adopted by Communist Russia, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany...
From Chicago the American Medical Association's Dr. Morris Fishbein added: "A nation which fought successfully against totalitarianism now proposes to enslave its medical profession . . . thus convert its physicians into clock-watching civil servants." If the bill passes, Dr. Fishbein prophesied direly: "The medical profession in Great Britain will lose the respect the rest of the world has always had for it, for it would be sure to result in deterioration of England's medical practice...