Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beveridge submits that all social insurance be placed in the hands of a single Ministry, and that the program of benefits be extended beyond anything ever before accepted as practical politics. His scheme will protect those it covers from every economics stress from childbirth to burial insurance: maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, accident payments, allowances for educating children, and a dozen or so others. These boons are not just gravy to be sopped up frm the public platter. Every pension is contributory, to be paid for largely from payroll taxes borne by the workers themselves. Beveridge cannot be accused of purveying...
...Said General McNair: "We must hate with every fiber . . . We must lust for battle; our object in life must be to kill; we must scheme and plan night and day to kill. There need be no pangs of conscience, for our enemles have lighted the way to faster, surer, crueler killing...
There was little prospect that the Beveridge scheme would be adopted by the present predominantly Conservative Parliament elected in 1935. Sober, competent New York Timesman Raymond Daniell cabled: "This, it has been predicted, will be the longest step this country has ever been asked to take toward economic reform, and the best political opinion is that it is doomed before [it has] ever seen the light of day, so far as this Parliament is concerned...
Polaroid Corp. has an even more erudite scheme which will make use of the full standard-screen size and shape, will require no accessory beam splitter or double projector. In the vectograph, a Polaroid patent, the two pictures, one for each eye, are printed over each other on the same photographic film or paper. Incorporated with them is the polarizing material. When viewed with Polaroid glasses the picture is fully three-dimensional in ordinary light. When thrown on a screen from an ordinary projector the pictures are automatically polarized by the film, thus need only the viewing glasses...
...prophet who revealed God's will to his group of Saints, and they took his word as they would God's, following him across the country to settle a land that was poor picking, even for coyotes. After a few years of settling and farming the great scheme began to grow, sending missionaries to all corners of the earth in search for more Saints to swell the ranks of the new Utopia...