Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western year 1949, in China's ancient lunar calendar, is a leap year, with two seventh months or a double July. The superstitious say a double July means a month more of rain and so a great flood...
...critics in particular) that Britain's woes have a simple origin in the socialist doctrines of the Labor Government-which is untrue. They say (the European critics in particular) that the British people are making less effort to get out of their troubles than the other peoples of Western Europe-which is not only untrue, but unfair and grossly insulting...
...Cominform rulers. "I think the time will come when we will help them to remove all obstacles which individuals have placed in the way of our fraternal relations." Thirteen months after Tito had been denounced by Moscow's Cominform as a Trotskyite traitor, he was still going strong. Western observers were beginning to believe that Stalin could not afford much longer to ignore Tito's dare...
Detachment Is Difficult. "Ill-informed criticism" of Western genetics by party-liners, Haldane says, has made scientific detachment in this case "much more difficult"; he wryly adds that if Western geneticists actually "held the views attributed to them, they would doubtless deserve severe criticism." But he pleads also for open-mindedness on the part of the West: "It is of the utmost importance that biologists in this country should be able to appreciate both the positive and the negative elements in the views put forward by Lysenko." As a scientist, he begs both sides to assume that...
...confirmed optimist regarding the future of America. I firmly believe that the basic characteristics of our economy are expansion and growth. Economic expansion today presents a strikingly different challenge from that of a hundred years ago. Then, the frontier development was the opening up of our great Western resources. The geographic frontier is gone, but we still have a frontier of development. That frontier is technology...