Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the modern Western nations have adopted effective preventive checks, and only these nations have low death rates and high living standards . . . Nearly two-thirds of the world's 2.3 billion people, still relies largely on positive checks . . . and the people are poor and ignorant...
Cried Douglas: "Today labor has it within its power to guide western civilization neither to the right nor to the left, but down the broad middle highway to abundance, to security and to peace...
...difference between Chiang Kai-shek and a Western European, such as the late Jan Masaryk, was that Chiang never believed that his Communists were "different." He had known them too long, had sensed better than many men in the West that there was no position of neutrality one could take with Communists. Mao Tse-tung had put it very well: "To use the word 'neutral' is to do nothing but cheat oneself...
Much of his work was correspondence and official documents. He did not dictate the replies; he merely brushed one or two ideographs in the margin of each-"Can do" or "Can't do"-which gave his secretaries the clue for the answer. Lunch was Western style when foreign guests were present, Chinese style for his countrymen. He was usually abed by 10 p.m. and he was sleeping soundly, he said. The only insomnia he could remember recently was last March, when the surprise election of General Li Tsung-jen to the vice presidency had made him somewhat sleepless...
Lineman include Jim Dicckelman, Holy Cross; Julian Buxton, Princeton; Bob Hughes, Western Reserve; Jim Talgia, Rutgers; Bob Ochs, Rutgers; and Tom Kelicher, Holy Cross. Backfield men are Frank Burns, Rutgers; Levl Jackson, Yale, George Sella, Princeton; Armand Allaire, Colgate; and Shafer...