Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warning. Price was a believer in parapsychology himself until he read (somewhat belatedly) David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. (Wrote Hume in the first half of the 18th century: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.") Now convinced that there is no scientific basis for ESP (extrasensory perception), Price challenges its champions to put people who claim to read cards at a distance or penetrate into the future to some practical work...
...Then followed questions about the purpose of the Korean war, the nature of the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, the New York Communist trial, and tidelands oil . . . One member of the board brought out that the employee [during the Korean war] dated Japanese girls. Another member tried to establish the fact that the father sought to be patriarchal in his relations with the employee, as fathers were in his homeland of Lithuania. The employee responded that actually the mother wore the pants. The first member asked if the employee traveled around Japan sightseeing, and learned that in addition...
...Recent developments, and especially the outcome of the [Big Four] conference at Geneva, bear witness to the fact that a certain relaxation of tensions has taken place," said the official Tass statement. The Russians explained their new move as an attempt to "establish confidence among nations." Whether the Kremlin would keep its promise there was no means of knowing, since the Iron Curtain makes inspection impossible. Tass went on to say that the 640,000 would be sent back "to their places of residence" and be "ensured employment in industrial establishments and collective farms," i.e., they would...
...been arrested. In Airaku-en's chapel he leads hymn singing and teaches Sunday school each week. He watches over Airaku-en like a patriarch, continues to convert its inhabitants to Christianity. Last week he asked the Episcopal Church on behalf of Airaku-en's Christians to establish a worldwide mission to victims of leprosy. By the standards he has set for himself, Aoki regards his life as a heartening success. His proof: although less than 1% of Okinawans are Christian, 34% of Airaku-en's 924 residents are Christian...
...battle between Perón and the Roman Catholic Church is not a battle against God or religion but a battle to establish an American principle-the separation of church and state, which the Roman Catholic hierarchy finds intolerable . . . In every country where it is possible, the Roman Catholic Church is a dictatorial, political machine, which works under the disguise of clerical robes...