Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person, not excepting Madame Chiang, does the Generalissimo spend more of his waking hours. In Chungking days, the two would cross the Yangtze together to the presidential home high above the south bank. Watchers would see two silent figures in the Gimo's power launch -Chiang in unadorned uniform, Chen in mandarin gown, reading each other's thoughts, rarely uttering a word...
...dreamt of being an ambassador, and was but a few rungs from the top of Mussolini's ladder when it fell in 1943. Unlike most of the climbers, however, he was not hurt. A daring young man, he dived for an A.M.G. life net, later sported a U.S. uniform while his old pals were marched off to jail. When the Americans moved out, Dario became a Communist...
...Reider knows of two bachelors who were so shocked to learn of their paternity that they had schizophrenic breakdowns. Dr. Reider thinks that the father's nervousness-and the mother's troubles, too, of course-would be diminished if the status of illegitimacy were corrected by uniform law. Under present U.S. law, says he, the male tends to get the notion that the important thing is not to get caught. If he becomes a father, he can rationalize his act by saying that he was hooked by the machinations of a scheming woman. In Sweden, where the state...
...reputation for brains and high spirits. After six years of this, he went to work for A-H and was lent to the Waterfront Employers Association. Shippers think that he had a lot to do with improving labor relations. During the war, when ulcers kept him out of uniform, he ranged the Pacific, unscrambling shipping problems. When A-H's President John E. Gushing decided to move over to the Matson Navigation Co. a month ago, Lapham was the logical choice to replace...
Clearly it is unfair to condemn the course hastily as of little or no value, for students uniformly testify that some of the light seeps through. But they are also quite uniform in their wistful comments on what might have been. Fortunately the problem of the confused social scientist grappling with a technical subject is not new. The Report on General Education clearly recognized it, and brought about the highly satisfactory reforms of the three Natural Science courses...