Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened to tune in on the Earth last week would have been struck by a peculiar hissing sound. It was a form of static caused by the word "peace" being fervently repeated by millions from Minsk to Minneapolis. Contrary to what the listener might conclude, the phenomenon did not mean that peace was any nearer, or that anyone could relax. In fact, the more people sat back in the belief that peace on earth was just around the corner, the nearer the world would...
...gave the Philippines something more than political independence: an imitative regard for "the American way." Filipinos take it to mean hustle and enterprise. Their islands are booming. War-battered Manila is largely restored, with gleaming new buildings sprouting up from rubble. Herds of shiny cars weave through the downtown traffic, spin along the wide boulevard around the bay. Filipinos have adopted some other symbols, too: jukeboxes blare U.S. tunes by day and neon signs glow in profusion at night. In the once-gutted Great Eastern Hotel, new robin's-egg-blue elevators shoot up to a cool, spacious ballroom...
...simple answer is: The same God that takes care of you even when you resist His Will. 'But we must give our children security and education.' Just because God doesn't give parents and children all today's phony materialistic standards require, doesn't mean He fails them...
...colleague of the late, great Physiologist Ivan Pavlov in his studies of conditioned reflex (by experiments with dogs); in Leningrad. She carried on Pavlov's studies after he died in 1936, published more than 100 works, lived according to Pavlov's precept: happiness is nothing, the dogs mean...
Under the system, missing Group Three rating by a narrow margin would not mean automatic loss of a scholarship, Dean Leighton said. Instead the board would consider such factors as other activities, special recommendations, and actual need of individual cases before the award was withdrawn...