Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus was formed the tradition that is to be continued today. It is a tradition that has become more and more refined since 1834, a process that seems to have followed President Lowell's general rule that "men removed by a few degrees above the savage state, as youths on the eve of graduating from our colleges often are, put up with course amusements only because no refined ones are offered in their stead." Today, for instance, there will be a baseball game instead of the nineteenth century's dance around the Liberty Tree, which involved holding hands and skipping...
...Pick out the item which violates a positive rule or characteristic of the other five: adjacent, conform, deprive, liken, oblivious, prior...
...resolution admitted that Henry Wallace's party was not all that could be desired. Certain ideological faults would have to be corrected. "It is necessary to expose the illusion that the abolition of monopoly rule . . . will usher in a system of 'progressive capitalism' " (a pet idea of Henry Wallace's). But that was minor. "The central immediate task of the Communists," the resolution declared, "is to help the people's coalition to realize its immediate tasks...
...Shelved, and thereby virtually killed, home rule for the District of Columbia, which has been governed by congressional committee for 70 years. ¶ Ignored Secretary George Marshall's urgent request for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the nation's most successful experiment in economic internationalism. Instead, it voted to extend the act for one year only, adding a provision which would bring major tariff changes under congressional veto. Senator Arthur Vandenberg announced that when the bill reached the Senate he would do his best to take the veto out again...
...South Africa queasily remembered a book called When Smuts Goes-a lurid, Wellsian prophecy of South Africa's future-published last winter by Dr. Arthur M. Keppel-Jones, a wispy historian at the University of Witwatersrand. When Smuts Goes predicted a Nationalist accession to power, an oppressive rule by extremists, a bloody suppression of black revolt, wholesale escape of blacks and emigration of British, founding of the "Ox-Wagon Republic," eventual war between the civilized world and South Africa, which would be left to devastation and barbarism...