Word: system
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present system of social security and nationalization in England are "the legacy of the Fabian society," the author and lecturer told her audience. She foresees nationalization of insurance as the next Fabian suggestion to be incorporated by the Labor Government...
...attributed some of the alleged misunderstanding between the two faiths to the "blas against Catholics" taught in "much of the public school system" and to the "general hostility" towards the Catholics caused by a "small minority" of Protesiant ministers...
Karsch is more worried about the rockets that pick nearly right courses which would carry them far outside the target area. To deal with them, he has set up a system he calls a "safety screen...
Londoners, thronging last week to the annual "Radio Olympia" exhibit, got their first glimpse of British color-TV (based on the same system developed in the U.S. by CBS). They found the colors pretty but strangely light, as though the image had been painted in watercolors instead of oils. Color-TV for the British public seems at least ten years off, but the manufacturers, Pye Ltd., were trying to sell closed-circuit installations to department stores, hospitals, universities. A Pye official even saw an atomic future for color-TV: "In industrial process, the watching of color changes at different parts...
...time their bustles gave way to hobble skirts; middy blouses came & went. Meanwhile, President "Princess Alice" Freeman, who first organized the college into 14 departments, resigned to marry a Harvard professor. After her came Mathematician Helen A. Shafer, who set up the system of majors, and portly Caroline Hazard, the great money-raiser, who surveyed her campus from a surrey with a fringe...