Word: observerer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jewish traditions of peace and democracy run deep, but the Israelis had been transferred so quickly from the depths of Europe to the heights of superiority in the Middle East that they could not escape the political equivalent of deep-sea divers' bends. The new blood of nationalism ran...
By Fleet Street standards, London's respected independent Sunday Observer (circ. 384,000) is not a very big paper, but it is accounted a very good one. It has only a twentieth the circulation of the garish, picture-strewn Sunday News of the World, but at least 20 times...
Britons sweated in record-breaking heat and a torment of national pride. The nation that had cradled the Industrial Revolution bristled at the thought that it needed industrial advice. Murmured one observer: "It's the psychological reaction of a once-great power when she realizes she's got...
"As an American observer who really didn't have too much time to observe," Jackson says:
¶ "The commission never misses a chance to communicate the news that our educational institutions are far too intellectual. This will certainly surprise the students, parents, teachers, administrators who have had anything to do with our educational system. To the disinterested observer, the American educational system looks like a gigantic...