Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical pacifists, Quakers seek to overcome evil with good, not in isolated cases but in every way they can. They believe in tackling troubles at their root. In World War I this philosophy led them to start rebuilding ruined French villages even before the Armistice. Afterwards they fed starving children, stopped epidemics, restocked whole provinces with farm tools, seeds and livestock, left permanent centres for "international good will" in Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Paris. Between wars they built schools in Mexico, helped Okies and jobless coal miners, ran hostels for refugees. Now they are busy once more in war-torn Europe...
...their program for sculptural and fresco decorations in Rockefeller Center's slab-sided skyscrapers, stocky, bob-haired Sculptor Milles had worked for three years. Milles got the idea for his singing statue from a line by German Poet Johann Gottfried Seume: "Where song is, pause and listen; evil people have no song." Taking three huge blocks of north Michigan pine, each made by pressing planks together like a gigantic piece of plywood, Carl Milles carved the biggest one into his medieval-looking horseman and tree. From the other blocks he carved two flanking figures: a bristly, annoyed-looking faun...
...swarming, near-defenseless China, there were only 9,000 adequately trained doctors. Most of them were trained in Britain, Europe or the U. S. Their colleague-competitors were native medicine men, who used such ancient practices as "acupuncture"-sticking patients with scores of hot & cold needles to let out evil spirits...
That apparently timeless evil of the House system, its numerical inadequacy, will persist in spite of any juggling of rents. But the Masters have, at least on paper, cleaned out some of the unfairness which has been without intention a part of the old system of assigning rooms. Prices will in the future be on a more even keel among the Houses and students may allow themselves more than a fervent hope of getting what they want for what they...
Under the present set-up if a Freshman doesn't make the squad his Sophomore year, he is practically doomed to oblivion, for there is no place where he can improve himself. Through this evil the depth which is such a necessary adjunct of any college team is lacking on the Crimson forces