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...wife of Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post. She went to the bedside of the irresponsible Ned, who had been laid low by myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart), but not just to smooth his brow. Her visit to the Capital had the two-fold purpose of fighting Ned's Mexican divorce, and fighting the proposed sale of the Post in the interest of her three children...
Communists. In the most intense portion of his encyclical Pope Pius termed Communists degenerate, cruel, inhuman, impious, nefarious, and many of their works ghastly. "One section of Socialism," declared His Holiness, "has degenerated into Communism. Communism teaches and pursues a two-fold aim: Merciless class warfare and complete abolition of private ownership. And this it does, not in secret and by hidden methods, but openly, frankly and by every means, even the most violent. To obtain these ends, Communists shrink from nothing and fear nothing, and when they have attained power, it is unbelievable, indeed, it seems portentous, how cruel...
...anyone suppose that with this two-fold experience I would consider with anything but horror the prospect of another war? Even if it were to arise between two countries only, a war nowadays would inevitably become a general war. Civilization itself would be endangered. New discoveries of science would make a future war even more dreadful than the last. The danger of death would not be reserved for fighters, but whole populations would be imperiled without the possibility of effective protection...
...contains them surely testifies to the unity of India in herself. The position of India House among those of the sister nations, here in the centre of my capital, further symbolizes the unity of the greater Commonwealth of which she is a part. For a deeper realization of that two-fold unity I most earnestly pray...
...abuses of cumulative grading are two-fold. A man working to have his probation relieved at April with four B's must actually bring his grade not up to B, but to A in order that he may have a B in the office. In other words the Midyear grade turns out to be a halter about the neck of the man who would reasonably better his standing. Conversely, the system enables a man in good standing at Midyears to slide his spring work down to D without any evident loss...