Word: orders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Dean Helen Taft Manning of Bryn Mawr College-isolationist sister of Presidentially ambitious Senator Robert A. Taft who last week accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of "ballyhooing" war in order to play politics (see p. 21)-urged the same committee to stiffen the present neutrality law and make it more instead of less inflexible, arch-isolationist Senator Borah demanded: "Haven't the people [of the U. S.] already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? The world is already at war. Already things have taken place which make other nations look...
...rivalry between the Haves and the Havenots, between the countries struggling to keep what they have and the countries struggling to expand. Or they see it as the clash of rival ideologies or of rival imperialists, with a vast segment of the world looking to Great Britain to maintain order while protecting her remote dominions, and another segment threatening to block her channels of communication with them. Or they see it as a problem of overpopulation in the crowded centres of the world, the masses of Europe and Japan swelling and pressing against the barriers that block them from...
...tests conducted with Dartmouth undergraduates, advertised products were best remembered when the commercial announcements appealed to selfesteem. Other appeals, in order of their persuasiveness : prestige, health, universality, sex, efficiency, economy, beauty, safety, comfort...
...monkish orders of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., oldest is the Society of St. John the Evangelist.* Members of this order are commonly called the Cowley Fathers, after the village near Oxford, England, where the order was founded in 1865-and where Viscount Nuffield first made his Morris Cowley and Morris Oxford cars. Mother house of U. S. Cowley Fathers is the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass...
...Most famed others: the white-robed Order of the Holy Cross, whose Father Frederick H. Sill founded and heads Kent School; the grey-robed Order of St. Francis...