Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With all his political assets, Mike Pearson still had to make a fight for it. His chief adversary: Paul Martin, 54, former Minister of Health and Welfare and a principal architect of Canada's extensive social security system. But in the end Pearson's international reputation, easily transferred into prestige at home, carried him to a comfortable first-ballot victory. He takes over the party controls this week from Louis St. Laurent, 75, Prime Minister for nine years until last summer's election, who retired to make way for a younger...
...prize is the first which will be awarded in a series of contests planned every four years for authors of outstanding books in the natural and social science fields. Funds for the prizes and for publication of the books were provided from the estate of Dr. Martyn Paine of New York City...
...General enrollment has risen 26% since 1945, but with the exception of first-year algebra (up 11%) and solid geometry (up 28%), the number of pupils in all other mathematics and science courses has slumped. Physics is down 10%, chemistry 17%. Other academic subjects have also suffered: enrollment in social studies, which include one required year of U.S. history, has dropped 9%; first, second and third-year Latin are down an average 20%; fourth-year Latin is not offered...
...There she was clothed in a bridal robe, learned to get along with the temple snakes, eat the sacred laurel and become the ecstatic "bride" of the god who emanated from the cleft of a rock in the depth of the earth. As a Pythia she was alone, a social outcast, feared and avoided by the plain people of Delphi. She was totally filled with the love of her dark, subterranean god, and yet at times she was rebellious. "For what else was there," she asked sullenly, "in this dirty world to love...
...Pusey stresses the need for "equal diligence" toward the social sciences and the humanities. Denying that "the present emergency presents us with an either/or choice," he claims that "these disciplines are no less important than the natural sciences to national security and welfare...