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...only hope for the survival of the privately supported American college and university lies in the willingness of corporate wealth to furnish in moderation some support to institutions which are so essential to public welfare, and therefore . . . to corporate welfare. What promotes the general good inescapably advances the corporate weal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Right & a Duty | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...their backs creaked beneath the violent tugging of bold hands, and the sweat flowed down in streams; and many a weal, red with blood, sprang up along their ribs and shoulders; and ever they strove amain for victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Homeric Sweat | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...amendment, so say its backers, would guarantee civil rights by specifically hoisting the Constitution above treaty law. In ending the executive agreement, which is a formal understanding not submitted for ratification, Bricker hopes to safeguard the public weal from presidential barter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bricker's Unbalanced Check | 2/28/1953 | See Source »

...flag tells price of nation's weal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayers for the Senate | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

This leaves a residue of perhaps two million typists and filing clerks who have scarcely more opportunity to affect the national weal than their counterparts at Sears Roebuck's. Even if a good percentage of them were Muscovite zealots, they could still be no more effective than their fellow employees' morale allowed. The Presidential and Republican pretense that the more exposure of Federal workers to such employees' Marxism means automatic conversion, is something less than believable. The question here is academic, of course, because few modern Communists publicize their affiliations. This evasion has provided a field day for the witch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don Quixote Revisited | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

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