Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply to two years in chemistry and a year each in biology and physics. If they thought more concentration desirable, they would assuredly demand it in their admission requirements. Rather, it is the hope of many committees of admission that the student broaden his education in the humanities and social sciences, leaving the bulk of scientific training to the four-year medical school and the succeeding one- to five-year hospital programs. Today, it is the feeling that too many physicians emerge from their education with little but a high school education in all but the field of science...
...Hitler, Germans in Bavaria and Hesse (U.S. zone) last week went to the polls to elect local officials. Principal results: 1) the Communists, who had made the most active campaign, lost even more ground, getting only 2.8% of the Bavarian total, and 7.9% in Hesse; 2) the center parties (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) lost heavily to the rightists. Two explanations were offered. In Frankfurt, Metalworker Gustav Schmidt explained: "The city is full of people who have fled from the Soviet zone. After talking with them, I voted as far right as I could get." Said a Wiesbaden Hausfrau...
...Final Answer. The hemisphere got a joint military staff committee, a system for compulsory arbitration of legal disputes, an economic and social council. Henceforth a hundred unrelated activities-hemispheric postal union, sanitary conventions, cultural institutes-would be coordinated under Secretary General Alberto Lleras Camargo in Washington. At last an integrated system existed, on paper...
...Federal Council of Churches presented to President Truman a seven-point program for "averting war without yielding sound democratic principles." Highlights: no complacency, hysteria or fatalism about war; economic, social and moral programs to combat Communism, rather than military strategy; renewed vigor of the churches in testifying to God's love and Christian fellowship...
...publicly preached that the British must get out as fast as possible; and, in 1893 he retired to England, believing that he and Annette had not many years to live. Both lived until 1929, long enough to see their elder son become one of England's top social planners. Annette Beveridge was 86 when she died, nearly stone-deaf at the last and vigorously translating Turkish biography. "Perhaps the cleverest lady and the wickedest in her opinions that I have ever met," said Bernard Shaw...