Word: uprootedness
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The men for whom yesterday's Valedictory was directly intended, the men whose course will be completed between now and June, are Harvard's transition class. They are the group who entered college when war was still isolated in another hemisphere and who stayed to see a college and a...
... It would be surprising indeed if the idea that war, as a national policy, was not uprooted once and for all from the mind of this most militaristic of all nations.
As an agnostic, Nehru has not accepted all these ancient beliefs; but, as an Indian, he has appreciated that soul force is a strange power. He himself has experienced the feeling of elation and victory over his adversary when being beaten down by an ironbound club. To Gandhi, the Hindu...
The immediate problem that will face the United Nations will be the settlement of the agricultural system. Agricultural machinery is wearing out and "the land is being neglected; . . . men are being taken off the land." Next is the problem of resettling of peoples uprooted from their homelands. Then there is...
Through four years at Colgate University and a postgraduate course at Harvard, he managed to retain a slight Russian accent and his intimate ties with the good Russian earth. "I," he sometimes says with a Slavic spreading of hands, "am a peasant." Fee fi fo fum. When the Bolsheviks began...