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...core idea has its roots deep in the problems of U.S. democracy. In the most complex technical-industrial society of all time, American learning has spread out to encompass everything from electronics to eel husbandry-and the common body of tradition and culture that once bound men together is by & large getting a cursory dismissal as "useless" and "impractical...
Beyond its political functions the League served many purposes which the new organization must encompass, supervising such international concerns as health, welfare, education, drugs, slavery and intellectual cooperation. The choice of which. to drop, which to continue and how to make the transfer was one of the commission's big jobs...
Rise & Fall. More than once in the next 300 years, the Poles marched as far as Kiev; more than once men from the East, notably the Tatars, swept into Poland. Casimir the Great was the first Pole to encompass a large block of non-Poles (Ruthenians) in his domains. His great-niece, Jadwiga, married Jagiello of Lithuania in 1386. The union of the two kingdoms prospered for almost exactly 300 years; the tide did not turn until 1667 (see map). Said Ivan III of Muscovy, when Poland's expansion was in full flower: between Russians and Poles, there...
...slopes of Mt. Etna and its foothills and on ridges overlooking the Plain of Catania, the Germans had every advantage. Their heavy artillery, anti-tank guns and machine guns bore downward at the British attackers. Northwestward, where the Canadians and Americans were advancing to aid the British and encompass Etna, every hill and defile could become a similar fortress when the Ger mans chose to make...
...long arms of Total War Mobilization have yet to encompass public educational problem number one. TWM's right arm, the War Manpower Commission, apparently is oblivious to the fact that there is a critical shortage of teachers. Congress, on the other hand, recognizes the fact, but so far has done nothing. Meanwhile, 39,000 teachers have either enlisted or have been drafted; another 37,000 have stopped teaching to accept more highly paid positions in private industry...