Word: refurbish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is nothing hopelessly mysterious about the Confucian principles Chen Li-fu wants to refurbish. Essentially, Confucianism teaches that human nature is good,* that harmony among men is the goal of life, that rulers rule by example and exhortations to virtue. However, the Confucian system assumes that government shall rest in the hands of scholars and of gentle and honorable men-the chiin-tzu. The benevolent paternalism of the chiin-tzu ideal (still reflected in China's 36-year Kuomintang "tutelage" and in much of the new Constitution) is not popular government as the West understands it. To many...
Promoter Zeckendorf had let his U.N. site go for a 20% profit, he said. Now he was busily buying up East Side property as far west of U.N. as Grand Central, getting ready to refurbish the whole area. When he sells or develops his neighboring blocks, he expects to make his usual 400% profit. Said he with happy anticipation: "That's how we make progress in this wonderful capitalistic country...
...trips to Havana and Rio, hard-dancing Leon Henderson mastered the rumba and the samba. This week the ex-OPA boss was off to Guatemala where he was expected to pick up the native son. With other U.S. experts, he would refurbish Guatemalan economy, try to rein in the country's galloping inflation...
...East. The British have two armies-the Ninth and Tenth-in Syria, Palestine, Persia and Iraq. Fortnight ago troops on Cyprus,which has been built up into a formidable base, completed maneuvers, and the men were declared "ready to take the offensive." The Allies have had time to refurbish airfields in Cyrenaica, only 200 miles from Crete, a logical objective of Allied activity in the eastern Mediterranean and a. barrier to any invasion of the Balkans. For their part, the nervous Germans moved last-week into Italian Rhodes, on Crete's flank and only 100 miles away. Marshal Rommel...
...Nieman Fellowships and the scholarships awarded union leaders were instituted to permit working newspapermen and labor leaders an opportunity to refurbish their skills so important to the community. Of even greater significance is the present step. Advances in college education affect directly only "the comparatively small minority who attend our four-year colleges." Great progress has still to be made in the secondary schools and adult education if the average American is to partake of greater cultural opportunities. An inadequate secondary school system can handicap the university greatly in its efforts to prepare its students; similarly, a mass incomprehension...