Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three principles laid down by China's first President (1912) Sun Yatsen: nationalism, democracy, social welfare...
Muttering into their beards, a cluster of black-hatted Amish farmers watched sullenly in Canton, Ohio last week, while an auctioneer sold off livestock confiscated by the U.S. Government. On religious grounds, Amishmen had refused to pay the social security levy-3⅜% of their own incomes-that the law demands of farmers. To satisfy the Government's claims, federal authorities in Ohio's Wayne and Holmes counties seized 28 head of livestock from 15 Amish farmers, seized cash assets of 50 others...
...next book will be more ambitious in scope: an interpretative study of American thought considered within an historical framework, and relying on literary, economic, social, and political history as well as constitutional thought...
Nevertheless, the yen for warmer graces dwelled in the New England bosom, plus a nostalgia for the London of old, plus a prophetic desire for the bigger and better. It demanded houses which were to be passing fayre, in the language of the time, houses which were to represent social status. And so, when the satanic redmen had at last been driven from Beacon Hill, and the kinddom of God more firmly established, the seeds of a Londonesque Boston began to sprout forth...
Welsh believed that the current experiment was "working very well" and "gave Dudley men a chance to 'live in' without changing their House affiliation." He also pointed out the advantages of social companionship and "house spirit" which come from having students live together rather than at home or off campus...