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...Hindu reformist sect founded by Guru Nanak, a contemporary of Luther. *The Nawab Saheb of Junagadh once threw away 100,000 rupees on the wedding of his prize Airedale bitch, which wore ribbons to the ceremony; vows were read for her and her dog. *In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, a group of British residents of Calcutta presented the temple of Kali with 5,000 rupees as a thank offering for victories over Napoleon. A century later Kali became a symbol of anti-British Indian nationalism, a place to which Mahatma Gandhi succeeded. That this substitution was only temporary...
Mormonism's early growth in the revivalist, reformist 18303 stemmed not so much from its theology (a potpourri of American religious thought spiced with a characteristic 19th-century belief in the inevitability of progress) as from the personality of Smith. Divine revelation, his ultimate authority in all things, was an unanswerable instrument of power. He used it to create and maintain his theocratic dictatorship...
...bills and plans for the socialization of Britain. They had waited & waited for their own Party leaders, for Winston Churchill himself to go on the offensive. Off their back benches the young Tories had not been silent. Some were bitterly outspoken. In the Tory Daily Mail young, Tory-reformist Quintin Hogg wrote of the Conservative "Rip van Winkles." One day last week Conservative prestige hit a new low and simmering young Tory dissatisfaction reached the boiling point. In Commons Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison triumphantly announced more steps toward the nationalization of British industries. He added Britain...
...Work in Municipalities, America Through Women's Eyes, etc.) without feminist ax grinding. Over the years kindly, ruddy-cheeked Charles Beard achieved the stature of a national institution. To hundreds of young pro fessional historians, he became a hero and a prophet, the acknowledged leader of a reformist school which attacked the abstractions of conservatism by an economic reinterpretation of U.S. history...
...occasional loyalty to such mild holdings as two jacks or three treys, and his reformist zeal for keeping all the other players honest, can cost him dear when such scientific pokerists as Ira Eaker are present. Says Mrs. Spaatz, philosophically: "That's where the flying pay goes. It's an old Air Force custom. They all have that feeling: 'What the hell, let's take a chance...