Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impact of the innovation in arrangement is being compared to that which occurred on the fateful day in 1935 when the book came out entited "catalog," with no "gue" ending. The spelling reform, however, didn't work out too well, and the final "no" was back on the cover the following year...
Last week Japan's New Structure-the national "reform" designed by Premier Fumimaro Konoye-had most of its girders welded. The framework appeared fairly conservative but the only building stocks at hand to complete the structure seemed to be materials of violence, hatred and daring...
Biographer White is charmed by the steadfastness with which, during his lifetime of 30 years, Shelley indulged his "passion for reforming the world." He traces every step of it: Shelley's elopement with Harriet Westbrook; their attempts to reform Ireland and Wales; Shelley's desertion of Harriet for Mary (Frankenstein) Godwin, and Harriet's suicide ; his inheritance of a fortune; their last, tragic days in Italy. There Shelley encouraged revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, England; there he wrote his most important verse; there he drowned. Wrote the Tory Courier: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry...
...second front was municipal finance. For years some economists have urged that Governments should reform their accounting, model it on that of corporations by segregating capital expenditure from operating expense. Two years ago. Economist Tugwell worked up the first annual capital budget for New York City ever used by any American Government. Since the most popular achievement of the LaGuardia administration has been spending for overdue public works (roads, tunnels, parks, airports, etc.), a budget that would set these up as assets was right down the Little Flower's alley...
...practice; and in all Houses infringements by students of some or all of the rules are common. Uniformity cannot and should not crush out "states' rights" in the Houses, but a switch to the simpler, more sensible Oxford card system as the general principle would be a healthy reform...