Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sickeningly similar stories are told by the hundreds of missionaries, businessmen and disenchanted Chinese who stream by thousands into Hong Kong. With Job-like patience, Neville and his assistants interview refugees by the hour, are able to follow much more than the march of the Red purge. They can watch trends such as the growing number of Russian "technicians" in China, the booming tax rate, the rocketing level of unemployment in specific industries. One student of transportation in Hong Kong was able to build up a timetable for trains throughout China...
Democratic Puritans. Author Nichols sees the Protestant Reformation as the "watershed" where the political differences of contemporary Christians had their origins. As the medieval system began to give way to the new idea of political sovereignty, he says, two divergent streams of religious thought swept forward into the 19th Century. One was represented by the Roman Catholics, Anglicans and Lutherans, who "taught generally the 'divine right of kings,' with the correlative denial of the right of resistance by subjects." The other stream was represented by the Calvinist churches, also known as Reformed or Presbyterian...
...From the first foundation to the present, four main streams have watered the sell on which the Universities have flourished. These ultimate sources of strength are: . . . the cultivation of learning for its own sake; . . . the general educational stream of the liberal arts; . . . the educational stream that makes possible the professions; and the never failing river of student life . . . The cultivation of learning alone produces not a university but a research Institute. The sole concern with the student life produces an academic country club or merely a football team maneuvering under a collegiate banner. The future of the university tradition...
...owed RFC $87 million by 1939, when it was supposed to start paying back. Since it was unable to do so, Congress passed a special law (the Chandler Act), which permitted the B. & O. to go into bankruptcy without its management's losing control. With that, a steady stream of officials left RFC and took B. & 0. jobs with the blessing of RFC Boss Jones...
...From the first foundation to the present, four main streams have watered the soil on which the Universities have flourished. These ultimate sources of strength are:... the cultivation of learning for its own sake;...the general educational stream of the liberal arts;...the educational stream that makes possible the professions; and the never falling river of student life... The cultivation of learning alone produces not a university but a research institute. The sole concern with the student life produces an academic country club or merely a football team maneouvering under a collegiate banner. The future of the university tradition...