Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pumps, ejectors, condensers, "the maze of teeth [on] the great twelve-foot bull gear . . . hobbed in spirals, or helices, across the gear wheel's rim." What, he wondered, was the net effect on man of such machines? Would the jittery 20th Century eventually learn to relax in a "kingdom of engines?" Ed Greenewater laughed and said, "Goddamn it, don't take it so hard, Second." The Chief grunted and went on reading Pip Magazine...
...years ago, a Han Dynasty prince and philosopher, Han Fei-tze, became disillusioned with this Confucian assumption. Seeing his kingdom losing power and territory, Han expressed himself in works entitled Solitary Indignation, Five Vermin and 18 others. Said cynical Han: "Force can always secure obedience; an appeal to morality, very seldom." Han, too, has followers in contemporary China...
With a contract from the Globe in his pocket, Robert L. Moore '49, of Winthrop House and Concord sets off for the United Kingdom this summer to write a series of articles on the topic of "An American Soldier Revisits England Three Years Later...
...quickly and how much can he gain on Hollywood? In Britain, if his production reaches 100 pictures a year -the maximum with present studios-he may cut Hollywood to 70% of the total box-office take in the United Kingdom, thus cut the dollar drain on Britain by about $20,000,000. On the same production basis, he might send enough top pictures to the U.S. to step his profits up to $18,000,000. This would be a blow to Hollywood. But Rankmen bumptiously predict that within five years they will be digging up $50,000,000 in Hollywood...
Among the 55 delegations were representatives of five Arab states (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia), who regarded the cause of Palestine Arabs as their own. But the success or failure of a Palestine solution ultimately depended on the U.S., the United Kingdom, and the U.S.S.R...