Word: reflected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cyrus Hamlin of Bangor, Me. took off for the Turkish province of Bulgaria. His instructions: "The people needs to be taught to read, hear and reflect." Few did more to teach Bulgarians to read and to reflect than Cyrus Hamlin and his Protestant missionary friends. They translated the New Testament into Bulgarian and helped bring out the first periodical in the Bulgarians' native tongue. When the Turks massacred Bulgarian rebels in 1876, it was the missionaries' protests that did much to make Bulgarian liberation into a world cause. After the liberation in 1878, the missionaries stayed...
Professor Hocking started the discussion by declaring that "values are tangible things" which reflect whatever man wants. Yet "values change and are changing," he stated, "and I find an antipathy to certainty in modern times." In this respect, Hocking added, "Western society has been going oriental in its values...
Warm southerly winds from the vicinity of Bermuda, theoretically caused by the sun spots, and bare ground in much of the New England area are the direct causes of the balmy weather here, Brooks explained. "If there were snow on the ground it would reflect the sun's rays but since the ground has been largely bare this winter it tends to absorb heat from...
...signification instances the news-Paperman's newsjournal, currently carries a strong pronunciamento by Nieman Foundation Curator Louis M. Lyons, and "The United Automobile Worker," the nation's most extensively circulated labor newspaper, whose editor, Frank Winn, recently pointed to the need for new papers "that will accurately and honestly reflect the opinions and desires of the majority of the people...
...been queasy six weeks ago, looked healthier again. In 1949's first two full weeks, department-store sales in big cities were generally from i to 30% better than the 1948 period. And since many prices had been slashed to move sluggish stocks, these figures did not reflect a still bigger increase in unit volume...