Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of fact, Art classified Army, Cornell, and Stanford among the "top 15 teams in the nation," and further commented that if Harvard comes through its first four games (Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Army) with a 50-50 record, the Crimson will be a definite power in the East...
...question like this one is difficult to smile at for long, when you consider that it was asked by representatives of the U.S. government (which apparently has found that "liberal views" work well at the polls) of a ship-yard worker as a test of his loyalty to the nation. Rogge's book is filled with such examples of indiscriminate and ignorant persecution of the minds and earning capacities of American men and women...
...visit to Lexington, Ky., Hooper met ex-Jockey Ivan Parke (the nation's leading rider in 1923-24) and decided to buy some thoroughbreds for Parke to train. The first one he bought, a $10,200 yearling which he named Hoop Jr., won the Kentucky Derby in 1945. It was a plum that many a sportsman had spent years and millions of dollars trying to pluck. Now Lucky Hooper's Olympia, a chunky bay three-year-old with a white face and a pink nose, is the red-hot favorite for the 75th running of the Derby...
Niebuhr finds still further possibility of Christian redemption on an international level. The most powerful groups within nations and the most powerful nations in the world can, he thinks, behave enough like individuals to earn themselves rebirth. This can happen when their power and pride are challenged by new social forces. Then they "face the alternative of dying because they try too desperately to live, or of achieving new life by dying to self." When the latter occurs, he claims, it establishes "the validity of the Christian doctrine of life through death for the collective, as well...
...such well-known generals as Greene, who forced Cornwallis into his hopeless position at Yorktown, and "Mad Anthony" Wayne, the hero of Fallen Timbers. But it is Country Squire Jacob Brown, onetime secretary of Alexander Hamilton, whom Chronicler Pratt considers "the best battle captain in the history of the nation." Once, during a British attack at Buffalo in the War of 1812, Brown's Kentucky squirrel hunters (under General Gaines) emptied the first two boats so quickly that the others didn't even come in. Brown, says Pratt, had "some ineluctable secret of leadership that made green country...