Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even a change from their standby topic, federal aid to education, hasn't improved the skidding fortunes of the Debate Council. It lost its third debate in two days last night when it met with Boston College in Kirkland House to discuss the subject: "A Comprehensive Civil Rights Program Should Be Enacted...
...Bruce Friedman '50 and Dan Pierce '49, arguing the affirmative for Harvard, contended that a civil rights act was necessary from a moral point of view. They asserted that in allowing discrimination on racial and religious grounds to exist, the United States left itself wide open for criticism of its form of democracy...
...driven off or absorbed, many a conqueror-the Huns and Mongols, the Tartars and Manchus. But the conqueror who, in the name of a grandiose world conspiracy, prepared to take over China last week could rival all of these. Mao Tse-tung knew that. Once, while flying over a civil war battlefield on which his men fought blindly for what they thought was the end of misery, Mao had written a poem. Excerpt...
Died. Theodore R. Middleton, 52, hard-bitten sheriff of Kentucky's "bloody Harlan" County during the '30s, famed for his rough treatment of United Mine Workers organizers; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In 1937, Middleton admitted to the La Follette Civil Liberties Investigations Committee that he owned coal company stock, and that most of his 370-odd deputies were paid by the coal companies (documents showed that one-quarter of them had criminal records...
Love That Scrubwoman! Conan Doyle was born (1859) in Edinburgh, the son of a frustrated painter who scraped a poor living in the civil service. Almost from the time he could toddle, the brawny boy was steeped in the favorite subject of Britain's poorer gentlefolk-the ancient and glorious past of the withered family tree. Impoverished Father Doyle claimed a relationship with the ducal house of Brittany. Little Arthur spent many of his juvenile hours memorizing the family coats-of-arms, while his plucky mama briskly scrubbed the floor and called out knightly maxims: "Fearless to the strong...