Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right for 200 years to speak their own language, to keep from being absorbed by English Canada. They felt no ties for either France (the France they remembered was that of the 18th Century) or Britain. And when English Canada, feeling those ties in the war, had tried to conscript the French Canadians to fight abroad, there had been riots and bitterness...
...suggest that we try to 'conscript for sport.' America has always believed in specialization and has done everything to encourage any outstanding youth. France has come into line, using great athletes as directors [i.e., at paid jobs...
...maneuvers in 1894 as a German Army conscript, Schweitzer carried a Greek Testament in his pack, and germinated the "eschatological interpretation of Jesus" (later published as The Quest of the Historical Jesus) that won him his first theological notice. Schweitzer's thesis: Jesus shared the Jewish Messianic expectation that the world was soon coming to an end, to be followed by a supernatural Kingdom of God. Since it did not, Schweitzer reasoned, Jesus must have been capable of error. Schweitzer advised liberal Protestantism to discard the infallible "Christ personality of dogma"-without discarding the Christ of the Sermon...
...irrepressible Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton was at it again. While Congressmen solemnly weighed the pros & cons of peacetime military training for all able-bodied young men (see U.S. AT WAR). the author of Why Men Behave like Apes and Vice Versa popped up with a fresh idea: why not conscript young women too? Argued Anthropologist Hooton...
...Ontario riding of Grey North, the political temperature rose. Cried CCF Candidate Albert Earl Godfrey: "We should . . . conscript wealth and industry as well as men." Cried Tory Candidate Garfield Case: his opponents were "outsiders," the CCF was fascist, General McNaughton was "incompetent." Cried Liberal Candidate Andrew B. L. McNaughton, National Defense Minister: "The Canadian Army overseas is being adequately reinforced...