Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order from PWAdministrator Ickes-acting at President Roosevelt's express bidding-telling a subordinate to give "prompt attention" and "right of way" to two new PWA bridges for Maryland...
...nations of the world are faced with the issue of determining whether relations shall be characterized by international anarchy and lawlessness or by principles of fair play, justice and order under law. No nation and no government can avoid the issue; neither can any nation avoid participation, willing or not, in the responsibility of determining which course of action shall prevail...
...provided by guessing contests, cheap sets of Dickens and reproductions of Modern Masters, the Post has not done too well. With 3,251,223 lines of paid advertising in the six months ending last June, the Post is well behind all its after noon competitors, which rank in order: Sun, World-Telegram, Journal & American. Last week, Dave Stern applied a new kind of oxygen...
...modern ills. Seeking, like Karl Barth, to rescue civilization from humanism and revive pure Christianity, Neo-Thomism does not "annihilate man before God" (as Barthianism does) but aims with an "integral" attitude to preserve man's dignity, incorporate the valuable elements of humanistic culture in a new Christian order. So far as the Church is concerned (and Maritain is at present in bad odor with some members of it because he favors "positive impartiality" in the Spanish war), he says: "Catholics are not Catholicism. The errors, apathies, shortcomings and slumbers of Catholics do not involve Catholicism. . . . Catholicism...
National Educational Alliance is the idea of John J. Crawley, a Manhattan mail-order and subscription publisher. Observing that British bookstalls were selling H. G. Wells's Outline of History like hotcakes, in cheap, weekly, paper-covered installments. Mr. Crawley decided to put the world's knowledge between paper covers and sell it by mail order, saving busy students the trouble of going to a bookstand. He spent three years lining up bigwig educators to write the lessons for him. Then he was ready to send out a weekly periodical called The Popular Educator, each issue containing about...