Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conspiracy to conquer and rule the world by any means, legal or illegal, in peace...
...rule your mind and your body from the cradle to the grave...
...parlor, discussing bread & honey. At a special session for the ladies, Mrs. Albin C. Bro, whose husband is president of Frances Shinier College, complained that a wife was nothing but a "janitor without portfolio ... At dinner parties, she must display the brilliance of an Einstein . . . Her basic rule in entertaining should be to do everything so well that all the trustees' wives will be proud of her-but not so well that her teas will run the risk of being distinguished . . . She should join the D.A.R. to show she has ancestors, and then a good proletariat organization ... to show...
Aircraft designers have studied the flight of birds only superficially. But with slide rule and logarithm they have come close, independently, to the mechanisms that keep the bird on the wing. The masters of machines that can outfly any bird for speed or distance must admit that a bird is, in a structural sense, a small and amazingly efficient living airplane. John H. Storer explains all this in a new book, The Flight of Birds (Cranbrook Institute of Science...
...Taft bill, which passed the Senate with a comfortable margin last year, but never reached the House floor, neatly sat on the fence in the public vs. private school aid controversy. Taft left it up to the states. "It is a home-rule provision," he said, admitting that he had "received criticism both from those interested in private schools and from those who think there should be no assistance to private schools of any kind...