Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were failures in the community. As all good Communist leaders must be, they were men with a talent for subservience, half citizens in the half-lit world of the Communist conspiracy. To rule, it was necessary to take orders. The only True Word, they taught as they had been taught, was the word from Moscow. Actually political neuters, they lived by the rule that the Comintern was the responsible custodian of men's minds and men's consciences...
...modern immaturity than a cause of it. This, he asserts, is not the age of the Common Man, but "the Century of the uneducated Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. Untaught in the wisdom of the race, he is competent neither to rule nor to be ruled ... blatantly vulgar, ill-mannered, boorish . . ." Instead of educating the Common Man to take his newly acquired place of leadership, U.S. schools and colleges have slung him a "mess of servile pottage." Merely to offer more & more of such education to more people, says Bell, solves nothing...
...that the ironclad rule that History 1 be included in every concentrator's program exists no more, History is definitely one of the easier fields for the man with a pretty good memory. The exams aren't overly taxing and the field offers perhaps the greatest opportunity for rewarding scholastic effort...
When all the returns were in, the Conservatives had an edge of more than 100,000 votes over the Laborites. Gone was Labor's uncontested rule of London and its breezy confidence about the 1950 general elections. With 64 seats each in the county council, the Conservatives and Laborites were tied. The one remaining seat went to the Liberal candidate, 73-year-old Sir Percy Harris. In the popular vote the Conservatives got 1,523,529, the Laborites...
...oarsman usually doesn't hit his peak of physical efficiency until his early twenties. (Bolles thinks the large number of older crewmen account for the high level of competition in postwar rowing). But Ted Anderson's presence in this year's boat seems to provide ample evidence that this rule is not infallible...