Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Bevin's ideal will be partially fulfilled. An agreement will be signed in London abolishing visa requirements for French and British citizens who cross the English Channel for short visits in France or Britain. Formal negotiations with The Netherlands and Belgium will probably come next...
...American ideal, President Conant continued, has always been "that the accidents of geography and birth will not interfore with a boy or girl ... receiving a proper education. We have never realized this ideal in practice, but today more than ever public opinion demands that we move farther in that direction...
...When we reach the stage where the people can protect themselves, there will be no danger in the ideal constitution of Sun Yat-sen and the Double Fifth...
...with carcasses slung over the fenders. The day before the Michigan season opened, an eight-mile line of autos waited to get on the ferry at the Straits of Mackinac, to head for such choice spots as Turtle Lake Twenty Acres Domain. The weather had been too mild for ideal hunting ; there was little tracking snow and the leaves were noisy. But there was so much venison on the hoof that a record 90,000 bucks had killed in Michigan by last week. In Maine, where hunting is a $4 million-a-year business, the season ended last with...
With the post-Civil War social and financial revolution came a change to ostentation and opulence as a way of life for the nation's "leaders" and an ideal for the masses. Looking back at a once-scorned Europe, special arbiters plumped for aristocratic living, and the nation clambered to imitate. The race kept up for a while, petered out just before World War I, and shifted then suddenly and violently to short, dresses, simpler dinner-parties, and fewer chaperons. During the twenties, manners became big business for the Posts and Dixes, and America's attention shifted from...