Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watched the formal surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, received the first of the five pens with which General MacArthur signed the document. Then, for the supreme moment of his wonder-packed week, he returned to Baguio, to accept the surrender of all Japs in the Philippines from the now fangless "Tiger of Malaya," Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita...
...innocent man had been the District Attorney who sent him up the river. But the ceremony went off without a hitch. Governor Thomas E. Dewey summoned Campbell from New York City to the Executive Chamber in Albany. There, in Campbell's presence, he signed a specially engraved document. The traditional wording of a pardon had been changed from "fit object of our mercy" to "innocent of the crime for which he was convicted...
Referring specifically to the clause in the document which provides that no country shall have more than one member on the executive board placed above the "permanent council," Professor Ulich, who is suspicious of the creation of "just another partisan political body," stated that "there are two prerequisites to the success of the organization. It must," he said, "represent the cultural aspirations of humanity as a whole, and not embody petty political conflicts. It must also, and this is of prime importance, have a thoroughly trained staff who are familiar with the customs and the language of the people with...
...origin. And even Noah Webster would be surprised to learn that O.K. ("without question the most successful of all Americanisms, old or new") has recently been approved by the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council, which "decided formally that inscribing O.K. upon a legal document 'meant that the details contained (in it) were correctly given...
...words "Free Society" are not included in the title for mere euphony. Throughout its 267 pages the document returns again & again to the theme that democracy is nothing but an unworkable, confusing dream unless its citizens share a set of fundamental traditions and premises. Their perpetuation, argues Harvard's committee, is education's prime responsibility. And in meeting this responsibility, the committee finds that U.S. education has been dangerously delinquent...