Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nonetheless inhibiting to national and individual effort, and it is already justifying and concealing innumerable small invasions of personal freedom. Britons have given up most of their economic freedoms and seem intent on abandoning the remainder as soon as they can. So far, they imagine that this will not mean the final loss of individual freedom. If they are wrong, they will know it only when it is too late...
...They Don't Give Us a Lead." It is often said that Britons have never cared much about their Empire, and do not now. They do care, and they simply don't believe it when they read that they are losing the Empire. They don't mean the technical empire of India, Burma, the Colonies. By "empire" they mean South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada-the Commonwealth. That is the "empire" that matters to them, and a good many of them see Britain's future in it. Some of them even think they can somehow...
President-Conant told the committee that the bill seemed to him to be "painstakingly detailed" insuring that federal aid will not mean federal "strings to local schools." He also voiced approval of the stipulation that, in order to receive federal funds, a state must show "reasonable concern for all its children, regardless of race or color...
...their prices is the direct result of a bad Easter season. Combined with a presidential request for lower costs, and a warning from their own N.A.M. that they are charging too much, business men have been well warned of future dangers. For concrete examples of what sudden slump would mean, they have samples in the sharp cut of restaurant and night club activity last fall, the spectacle of full-scale fur sales in December, the desperate attempt of liquor companies to head off a price war when liquor sales took a nose dive. These are piecemeal readjustments, the wholesale collapse...
...remain a right of those who publish only if it incorporates into itself the right of the citizen and the public interest." If it continues to be in so many cases inflammatory, irresponsible, and sensational, an increasing demand will inevitably come forth for a federal control which can mean an end to a cherished freedom...