Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emerging from six years of war, during which morality and principle have increasingly been put aside in favor of military expediency. The war has now ended, and with that ending, principle and morality must be re-established in the world. The U.S. ought to take a lead in that. We are the only great nation whose people have not been drained, physically and spiritually. It devolves upon us to give leadership in restoring principle as a guide to conduct. If we do not do that, the world will not be worth living in. Indeed, it probably will be a world...
Almighty God . . . look with favor, we beseech thee, upon this school...
...rumor mills had it that Hirohito, while closeted with MacArthur, discussed abdication in favor of Crown Prince Akihito, 11, and a regency. But there was no visible pressure on him to leave the throne. If abdication was in fact discussed, it was because Hirohito himself wanted...
...Wilderness. But while it lasted and whil the Age of Opulence covered the land with its fertilizing flood, Americans floated and liked it. The Booster and the Hustler appeared, to do battle with the Knocker. For there were knockers. Many of the long-haired critics had fled prosperity in favor of poverty in Paris. In London, the most important of them, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, found a name for the period's typical man: "Apeneck Sweeney." He called the age's greatest poem simply: The Waste Land...
Departing from his professed antagonism A. Sorkin, professor of Sociology, took a strong stand in favor of its foreign policy at a forum held Tuesday evening under the auspices of the Harvard International Club the Harvard Forum, and the Radcliffe League for Democracy. The subject was "Russia's international policy and its effect on the United States." Over 350 people were present...