Word: restorationism
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The current Five-Year Plan, formulated in 1946, has as its first aim the restoration of 1940 levels. Hence the report plainly meant that Russia is not so strong as she would like to scare the world into believing.
In 1924, Wilhelm went to live in a Paris suburb. One after another, his old friends dropped away. In 1935, he was sued together with a French actress for collecting money allegedly for the restoration of the "lost Ukrainian crown." Hastily he left Paris, went to Switzerland, thence back to...
Ottawans got to know William Congreve a little better. Two nights in a row last week, John Gielgud's company presented the Restoration dramatist's Love for Love at the Capitol Theater. Halfway through the first act, two clergymen in the first-night audience got up and walked...
"As they weaken," he declared, "we shall need to make many basic readjustments"--wage and salary increases "in some cases," lower prices "in the numerous instances where profit margins permit or where future profits would be better protected, by assuring larger volume through lower prices," now social legislation, and restoration...
William Congreve lost something in Boston. When John Gielgud brought the Restoration playwright's Love for Love to town, two censors eliminated "lines of questionable taste."