Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your issue of Jan. 14 you state, concerning the dress reform in the U.S. Navy, that the black neckerchief is worn to mourn the death of Nelson...
...first to eye the polar icecaps. Hiroshima's dust had hardly settled when English geophysicists suggested that polar icecaps might be blasted away entirely and, since the glaciers are tag-end relics of an all-but-ended ice age, the icecap would in all probability never reform. Some years ago an Australian geophysicist, Sir Edgeworth David, speculated on what would happen if the Antarctic icecap were dissolved. Sir Edgeworth concluded that the world's sea level would rise about 50 feet (others calculated as much as 100), inundating every seaport; climatic zones would be shifted; violent quakes would...
Among his other political assets, Chep Morrison has a pretty 24-year-old wife, a handsome baby son. Although elected as a reform candidate by voters tired of the blatant inefficiency of the Maestri machine, he is not a reformer. ("New Orleans is no town for a Sunday blue law.") His chief ambition as mayor: to help New Orleans outstrip Miami as "the gateway to Latin America...
...revolutionist. The French Revolution was for him what the Russian Revolution was for a later generation. Unlike many later enthusiasts, Wordsworth was not content to applaud from the sidelines. He went to France and took a small post in the revolutionary government. In time he decided that revolutions can reform practically anything except man. So he became a philosophic conservative of the most unrepentant kind -the repentant revolutionist. For some. 50 years he sounded the emotional overtones of this position in verse that ranged from bald simplicity...
...Swiss ski slopes, once likened the code of Bushido to the chivalry of King Arthur's Round Table; he served with Tokyo's military garrison. Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu, 40, more retiring than his older brother, was last week reported giving counsel to the Emperor on government reform. Prince Takahito Mikasa, 30, who likes the strenuous life, once made an eye-filling picture while training as an Army cavalryman at Yatsu Beach near Tokyo...