Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correct to say, as you do, that the British led an attack on the U.S. freer trade program at Geneva. . . . It is true that the United Kingdom did not grant all of the requests made by the United States. It is equally true that the United States did not grant all of the requests made by the United Kingdom. The result . . . was a compromise which was acceptable to both Governments...
...conclusion that the Jesus of history was not a God but a man of his time with a limited mind and understanding. Schweitzer's chief point: Jesus, like many Jews of his time, believed that God was momentarily about to end the physical world and inaugurate his Kingdom. In this expectation, reasoned Schweitzer, Christ sent out his disciples to announce the coming Kingdom, and preached an unworldly "interim ethic" designed to prepare man for an imminent end of the world...
Fabled Wonders. To King ranchers, big Texas talk is no bigger than the facts of their cattle kingdom: the biggest beef-producing ranch in the world. Some King-size statistics...
Freedom to Fail. In Geneva, the International Civil Aviation Organization failed to conclude a multilateral civil aviation agreement. The U.S., United Kingdom and France wanted to include the "fifth freedom," i.e., the right of an airline to carry traffic between two nations other than its own. Smaller countries, led by Mexico, Canada and Portugal, defeated the proposal, fearing that the big nations would monopolize international traffic...
...mother was German. Somehow his mother had instilled in him a love for Germany. "It cannot be put down in black and white how she wove the spell about him. . . . The secret does not lie in the promise of conquest. That secret is a lyricism that extends the kingdom of the nightingale, diffuses everywhere the secret perfume of the rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban street by the wealth of flowering bulbs, jonquil packed beside narcissus, crocus beside grape hyacinth, which...