Word: realm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announced in the new "Courses of Instruction" booklet as Chinese 11a, the series of lectures, as described by Shih himself, will "cover about 25 centuries of the development of Chinese thought in the realm of social and political problems, religion, morals, and the more strictly philosophical speculation. The historical background of the larger political changes, racial movements, scientific progress, and cultural development in general will be considered in dealing with each age and its subdivisions...
...calmly lit a cigar. He had arrived in Italy four days before the Allied armada invaded southern France, three days after the sudden arrival of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Since then he had talked to Tito, to Italy's Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, Marshal Badoglio, Lieutenant of the Realm Prince Umberto, to Pope Pius XII. These talks might have concerned military plans. They almost certainly concerned the future plans of Britain and Russia in the Balkans, in Italy, in the eastern Mediterranean. In the case of Pope Pius XII, they concerned Poland. The newsmen wanted to know what...
...praised Guatemala's Dictator Jorge Ubico. They have admired Guatemala's orderliness, its clean-swept streets, its impressive public buildings. But these observers did not see, or else ignored, the real Guatemala behind this façade. Last week, after a stay in Dictator Ubico's realm, a TIME correspondent reported in detail on one of the world's most flagrant tyrannies...
Bonomi & Co. paid no attention to the House of Savoy. Crown Prince Umberto, who had just taken over nominal rule (as Lieutenant-General of the Realm) from his father, Vittorio Emanuele III, heard about the new Government after it was formed. The new ministers swore fealty to the nation, not to the crown...
...stately House of Lords, peers of the realm huffed & puffed at the Government's bill to provide equal education for all. Ignoring the democracy of death in Normandy, crusty Lord Buckmaster said: "Take a boy in an elementary [public] school and whip him for something he has done and all too often he goes whining to his mother. . . . Take a boy in a public [private] school and flog him, perhaps for something he has not done, and one never hears a word about it." R. W. Sorensen, Labor Member of the House of Commons, announced that he would...