Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spiritual Heir. "If this self-criticism is just, then we must revise the whole of our present conception of modern history.. . . Our present view of modern history focuses attention on the rise of our modern Western secular civilization as the latest great new event in the world. ... If we can bring ourselves to think of it, instead, as one of the vain repetitions of the Gentiles-an almost meaningless repetition of something that the Greeks and Romans did before us and did supremely well-then the greatest new event in the history of mankind will be seen...
...final pressure behind the President's call for selective service and U.M.T. The decision had been taken after long consultation between White House, State Department and Defense heads. The decision was to commit the U.S. to full military support of Western Union-even if that should mean, in event of war, a military retreat from the Mediterranean. To make the guarantee effective, the U.S. needed, in one of Marshall's favorite phrases, "the military posture" to lend its words authority...
King Paul I gave a gallant but somewhat naive interview to" a newsman from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I don't think a [general] war will take place in the near future," said the king. "But in the unforeseen event of foreign aggression, Greece will defend herself to the last man independently of outside help, and if we have to fight alone we will...
...votes? How does the founding convention of the new progressive party crack that? Wednesday afternoon Reuther did not think these were issues. "We didn't necessarily mean a 'fourth party,'" he commented, "but we did mean realignment." Wallace's backing isn't going to hold and "in any event when the Communist Party gets through using him, they'll drop him like an old shoe." Reuther disclosed that the CIO will "very shortly" speak up on foreign policy after re-evaluating its general political position in terms of the President's armament proposals. When or if Truman is junked...
Athletics, to a degree, are sublimated in a variety of social extravaganzas which culminate in what is known across the Cambridge Common as the social event of the year--the Dunster Spring Masquerade...