Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree that a person of 42 is still young, but our neighbor's daughter of 18 views such age with different eyes. Recently this girl's mother was telling her of a friend of 42 who had just had a serious operation, whereupon the girl remarked: "It doesn't particularly matter, mother, if she doesn't pull through, she's so old anyway...
...university, which now has an endowment of about $4,000,000 and annual $1,000,000 state appropriation, has an even wealthier neighbor down the street: Duke. It is characteristic of Frank Graham that he has worked hard at sharing facilities and instruction with his rival. During the war he was criticized for spending too much time away from the campus as a member of the War Labor Board. When trustees complained, the student paper polled the campus, reported 95% of the students and faculty behind Dr. Frank...
...Peace and Security, which was to have opened in Rio on Oct. 20. The State Department explanation: the U.S. could have no dealings with the Argentine militarists whom the U.S. had welcomed back in the Hemispheric fold only seven months ago. The Latin American fear: that the Good Neighbor policy of joint action was being scrapped...
...Seesaw. Sumner Welles's doctrine of nonintervention and mutual consultation on hemispheric problems was the heart of the Good Neighbor policy. During his long reign as Under Secretary of State (1937-1943), he did very little for democracy within Latin American nations, but he did a great deal for democracy between them...
...week with the din of intercollegiate battle. The House Naval Affairs Committee, under the watchful eye of billiard-bald Chairman Carl Vinson, sat, looked and listened. Tiny, ancient, impoverished St. John's College was defending its 160-year-old campus against the predatory onslaught of its huge wealthy neighbor, the U.S. Naval Academy...