Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Non-Folding Experiment...
Tongue for Revolution. The Assembly's seats were full and its galleries packed as the government proposed that Hindi replace English as India's official language. To appease the non-Hindi-speaking majority it would be done through a is-year transition period in which Hindi would be spread everywhere (especially in the south). Further, 13 of the lesser languages would be recognized for local and provincial use. Prime Minister Nehru himself defended the government's proposal. He turned his oratory particularly against those who favored a revival of ancient Sanskrit...
...alas, the coming of the gasoline engine has removed the living spur to expressive, non-blasphemous profanity until now only a pale substitute survives-the words are remembered but the music has been lost...
...stubbornly insisted he could never take politics seriously ("Ich bin Künstler"-I am an artist), but he let the Nazis make him head of their Reichsmusikkammer (State Chamber of Music) in 1933. He resigned when the Nazis irritated him by criticizing his "non-Aryan" librettists, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (who had died in 1929) and Stefan Zweig. Last year, Strauss was finally cleared by a denazification court...
This cautious optimism was provoked by the fact that industrial production and employment were again rising swiftly. The Bureau of the Census reported that its Aug. 13 survey showed the sharpest monthly rise in non-farm jobs (1,368,000) in years, more than enough to offset the seasonal drop in farm employment. Total U.S. employment rose to 59,947,000, the highest so far this year, while the number of jobless fell from 4,095,000 to 3,689,000. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin thought the rise had continued into September's first week, when unemployment...