Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shining Deed? Presiding serenely over the British machine is tall (6 ft.), urbane, 45-year-old Stewart Perowne, able adviser in Britain's Bagdad Embassy. Twenty years a Middle East hand, Perowne even more than the British Ambassadors (who come & go) symbolizes British rule in Iraq. Unlike most British officials, he openly plugs for a larger Hashimite kingdom. A favorite Perowne remark: "Iraq shines like a good deed in a naughty world...
...much as they do the waterworks." The committee proposed to teach about religion, but not to teach religion itself, in the schools. For a while the group had considered a proposal to find and teach a set of principles common to all faiths (e.g., some form of Golden Rule), but rejected this as "watered-down" religion acceptable to nobody...
...will stick with such a job. The pay is disgracefully low (the average teacher gets from $800 to $3,100 a year). Socially, teachers are held in a special kind of contempt and are subject to prying and coercion in their private lives-and are, as a rule, subject to threats and to firing without any possible means of self-defense...
Although it is not the rule, College course credit is sometimes gained by concentrators through work with recognized expeditions...
Today's 250 ES&AP concentrators acquire a much broader fundamental understanding of the physical sciences than the pre-war Engin. Sci. mon. They leave the level of "slide rule pushers," and although they may have to ask a lot of questions on their first few jobs, changing situations and techniques won't upset them...