Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin P. Adams, veteran columnist and mnemonic marvel of radio's Information, Please, was dabbling again in politics.* He was put up as Democratic candidate for justice of the peace in Weston, Conn., a rock-ribbed Republican community...
Thousands of men & women poured into New York's Grand Central Station last week to see the newest mechanical marvel of the world's most mechanical nation-the "wholly new" Twentieth Century Limited. The New York Central's publicity handouts had described the new Century as "the most modern and luxurious train in all railroading history." This turned out to be something of an overstatement...
...Marvel of It. It was a marvelous triumph-so sweeping that next day the whole of Quebec gasped. Quebec's Liberal leader, Adelard Godbout, had hoped, this time, to carry the province. The Liberals had sent in External Affairs Secretary...
MacArthur cajoled the Cabinet and the Diet into creating a new constitution, which was not only a democratic marvel (in form) but also contained a renunciation of war. Labor organizations were set up and encouraged to assert their rights. War criminals were brought to trial. Several of them, on the brink of execution, thanked the U.S. for fair treatment. Ill-famed wartime Premier Hideki Tojo and 24 other top wrongdoers are awaiting sentence. Nobody in Japan, certainly no American, could be sure that these lessons would stick. But the score was impressive...
...attacks at both man-centered Marxism and capitalism, Maritain proposes a God-centered "Christian humanism." Says he: "God trains us through our disillusionments and mistakes to understand at last that we must believe only in Him and not in men, which places us in the proper position to marvel at ... all the good which [men] do in spite of themselves...