Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labor-short German economy. Sharing the credit for the tougher political miracle of resettlement are the Federal Republic's two major political parties. Competing actively for the "refugee vote," Christian Democrats and Socialists backed a unique 50% tax on all property that West Germans had managed to save through the war, in order to compensate refugees who had lost their possessions. A special Equalization of Burdens Bank granted thousands of low-credit business loans. Since virtually all were homeless, the East Germans were the chief beneficiaries of 6,500,000 new housing units built since...
...five years the problem was attacked by the world's most imaginative engineers. Scheme after intricate scheme was devised on their drawing boards. Offer after expensive offer was made to save the great Egyptian temple at Abu Simbel from the waters that will soon rise behind the Aswan Dam. Which method would finally be chosen to preserve that magnificent relic of a lost civilization? While the world waited for an answer, each new suggestion drew new publicity while the money raisers raced against time to collect enough cash to pay what seemed sure to be an astronomical bill...
...according to Theologian James Robinson, it is creating "quite a ground swell of interest" in U.S. seminaries. Robinson, of the Southern California School of Theology, calls this latest vogue "a new quest of the historical Jesus." Surprisingly enough, the quest has been undertaken not by Christian conservatives eager to save Jesus from scientific attack, but by the radical, skeptical disciples of a German Lutheran scholar whom many regard as an arch-heretic: Rudolf Bultmann, 78, retired professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg...
President Conant began the rebuilding program in 1948 with his decision to "save" the Ed School; and in Keppel he found the ideal dean. As Theodore Sizer, director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, describes him: "he was too young to have made enemies; the he possessed only one degree and that the most appropriate, the Harvard A.B.; he had been trained in Cambridge as an assistant to Dean Buck of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and he was the son of a distinguished scholar and philanthropist. Impeccable he was indeed, and his arrival was timely...
...Hetty and the fortune she fostered raises some interesting psychological questions. What meaning, for instance, did money have for a woman who carried her cash-often only a few crumpled dollar bills-in a handbag tied around her waist? Who avoided taking a bath, probably in order to save soap, and who laboriously extracted "perfectly good nails" from a broken sled and saved them for some vague future use? Who spent half the night looking for a 2? postage stamp she had mislaid? At a time when Hetty maintained a $30 million cash bank balance, she was living...