Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Dwight Eisenhower turned his attention to housing, sent Congress a message placing the federal housing program on a new foundation. The President's long-range aim: to enable every American family to have a "decent home...
...hall, while the ancient debate raged with new fury. Time passed; an old priest died, and a younger priest took' over; an old mayor died, and a younger mayor took his office; both agreed that it was time to end the ancient rift and to give Cesare a decent burial...
Sometimes a university gets so big its various departments lose contact with each other. Take the Department of Buildings and Grounds here. It's run from Massachusetts Hall, the Administrative Vice-President s office. After years of trying to pay the maids a decent wage, and still keep room rents at a level students could afford, it has thrown up its hands and decided to throw out the maids...
...also gives the Government an effective means of suppressing native leaders. All requests for higher education must be passed by the Native Affairs Ministry, which may use this power to force submission from parents who want a decent education for their children...
...social issues, he has followed Leo XIII (1878-1903), who perceived, like Marx, that the key to the Western World was the worker. In his famed social encyclical, Rerum Novarum, Leo proclaimed the worker's inalienable right to a decent living, the employer's duty to provide it, and the right of both to private property. Pius XII has reasserted Leo XIII's line. In 1945, he approved (reluctantly) the daring social experiment of the French worker-priests...