Word: meaningly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such common purpose among Western democracies was far more important than technological advantage or more atomic bombs, Monty insisted, and it might mean "some small loss of sovereignty for the common purpose." But, said Montgomery earnestly, "the premium is not very great. The dividend will be enormous-it will be peace and freedom...
...outmoded." But Smith also found another tyrant besides society: science. According to modern educational dogma, science should be the final test of all action; all things outside it-"man's ingrained habit of setting up ethical and moral ideals, his belief that his own life must mean something and that the universe should 'make sense'"-are "prejudices...
...give children church doctrine along with their Three Rs. Last week, Catholic Parents' Associations in Britain were rallying support for a drastic change: they wanted to persuade the government to take over the Catholic schools. Nobody was happy about it. To the crisis-goaded government it would mean an added financial drain; to British Catholics it might be a dangerous surrender. But there seemed to be no other...
...Unless somebody does or says something horribly mean to me," wrote Lafcadio Hearn to a friend, "I can't do certain kinds of work-the tiresome kinds, that compel a great deal of thinking...
Fearing that "last year we talked the much about money and not enough about charity," the Drive's directors have reffused to set a specific goal, except to surpass last year's record of $23,000. They have asked for $10 per student, which would mean a maximum expectation of almost...