Word: generale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who resigned his post as Governor General last April because the Colonial Assembly refused to let him have an automobile (only garbage and soldiers were allowed trucks) must have been piqued to hear that cars were now permitted all over the islands. Fire engines and ambulances filled with war workers screeched through Hamilton; the Army rumbled around in "trolleys"-large trucks formerly used for carrying convicts to work; manager of the Mid-Ocean Club, who owned a car for use within the Club's 200-acre estate, dashed happily back & forth with...
...general impression of this last talk with Field Marshal Göring was, in fact, that it constituted a final but forlorn effort on his part to detach Britain from the Poles...
...scheme or plan for the propagation of a doctrine or system of principles-Webster's New International Dictionary. * When Field Marshal von Blomberg, Minister of War, married his pretty secretary in January 1938, aristocratic General von Fritsch, Army Commander in Chief, protested strongly. When both were subsequently purged, the ranks of the conservative army group were cracked...
Last week the old hulk was raised from its grave, renamed Scribner's Commentator, and put to sea again. It kept the Scribner's format virtually unchanged. Editor and general manager of Scribner's Commentator is Francis Rufus Bellamy, onetime executive editor of The New Yorker...
Born in Burlington, Vt., where his father kept a general store displaying a sign: "Ham and Segars, Smoked and Un-smoked," John Dewey raised Yankee common sense to the status of a full-fledged philosophical system. Essence of his philosophy is indicated in the proverb: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." Truth, to John Dewey, is not fixed or absolute, changes as conditions change. And he believes that the highest virtue is intelligence, that intelligence means resolving a problem with the answer that 1) is most workable, 2) makes the most people happy. Moral basis...