Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goal at Harvard in the second year of this NSA "experiment" is 1500 cards sold, Allen E. Kline '50, head of the drive, announced yesterday. Holders of 400 cards sold earlier this year will be given transfers so their cards will be valid until September 1950, the expiration date of the cards now on sale...
...this suggests, and here I am at the third level, that education is all a matter of money like everything else, war, scientific advance, even religion to a large extent. Given a good place to sit in (and a luxury super library to read in) anybody with the financial stuff can become an educated citizen...
...Judge Medina's charge to the jury is a masterpiece of Americanism. Every person in this country and in all democracies should be given the chance to read it. I sincerely hope that you have included it in all the foreign issues of this date...
...caste . . . They do not consider militant unionists as enemies . . . The right of the man who will and can work to obtain by his labor the means to support himself and his family is absolute . . . The idea cannot be to give all men the same start, because nature has given them unequal physical, moral and intellectual gifts . . . The real ideal is to give everyone a chance . . . The real goal to pursue is that . . . all workers should have the opportunity of becoming capitalists . . . An atmosphere must be created in the nation which fights against the exaggerated appetite for absolute and automatic security...
...looked as if the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia had finally given way to relentless Communist pressure. "Priests and Catholic laymen," said a government spokesman last week, "are now obligated to faithful and effective collaboration ... in the building of socialism...