Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every child needs and has a right to guidance. . . . Letting children, perhaps forcing them is more accurate, to decide for themselves by popular vote ("the vote of a four-year-old counts as much as ... any teacher's") all the rules of their own conduct and government is as unreasonable and inexcusable as for one to say to a blind man, "Choose your own path-I won't say a word...
...anti-Semitic riots, there were wide expressions of sympathy for the refugees. Commented the Manchester Guardian: "World opinion will be shocked. . . . The Government has not so much credit left in the world that it can afford to squander it in acts of unpremeditated folly." Added the News Chronicle: "British conduct ... is moving rapidly to the ultimate stage of lunacy. . . . No one but a fool would try to compel a Jew to go to Germany of all countries...
...experts did not see eye to eye on the McCormick explanation. One agreed, grudgingly: sometimes the air does have belts of varying density. On very rare occasions, these may act as "wave guides" and conduct the radar's waves up from the surface of the water and over an obstacle...
Boldly patterned after student associations abroad, the proposed NSO will seek to foster and develop campus activities which improve students' welfare, and conduct activities to bring American students into closer and friendlier contact with students and cultures of the United Nations...
...Springfield, 111. hotel room. As surprised as Husband Harry Finkelstein was his companion of the moment, Sally Rand, grand old (43, she says) lady of the fandanglers. Finkelstein was just treating her for heat exhaustion, protested Miss Rand, but Mrs. Finkelstein had them both arrested for disorderly conduct. Miss Rand's valedictory to the press as the police closed in: "I have nothing to hide...