Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen. Three years later she married her shy, studious cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg, and bore him nine children, whose marriages allied England with the ruling houses of Germany, Russia, Greece and Rumania. In the first part of her reign, in the turbulent debates over the Reform Bill and during the unsettling changes of the Industrial Revolution, she quarreled frequently with her ministers. As she grew older, and her Empire prospered and expanded, she came to exemplify Britain's solid, enduring middle-class virtue, summed up in the word Victorian. When it came time to celebrate her diamond jubilee...
Council approval of a plan for sports reform does not mean, however, that most colleges and universities will abandon spring practice this year. Hugh C. Willett president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, said last night, "The action taken by the American Council on Education will have no immediate effect on the policies of the NCAA...
Corruption in municipal government can never be entirely abolished, three reform experts agreed at last night's Law Forum. But they differed on the means needed to diminish existing evil in government...
...according to Phillips, the corruption in Philadelphia stemmed from city hall and not business. The process of reform has been slow, he said, but there are indications that the municipal government is improving because of such things as a new charter and powerful civic organizations...
...concluding, Rappaport called for definite changes within the political framework of municipal government; Phillips called for reform within city hall; while Halley demanded that business should come about to the understanding that good government is good business and that only qualified people should run for public office...