Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe it was once common to convert whole peoples, by main force, from one Christian faith to another, on the historic principle of Cuius regio, eius religio ("whose rule, his religion"). Long in disuse, this principle was last week once again being honored in eastern Europe. The rule was Poland's, the religion, Roman Catholicism. Or so it was loudly and plausibly charged by those who were undergoing the "conversion"-7,000,000 Ukrainians in southeastern Poland...
...University students as a whole are somewhat right of centre...
...permission to abridge a book, Omnibook will pay publishers $500. While the strongest objection to boiling down books comes from authors, some publishers have also balked at Omnibook's plans. Short digests, they feel, might whet a reader's appetite for the whole book; long abridgments, they suspect, might satisfy...
...whole barrel of the apples of discord is thus thrown overboard...
...flaming geyser of 1,680,000 gallons of gasoline in a few minutes was splattering a dozen other tanks. By midnight 18 tanks had collapsed into a scarlet pool of blazing oil. Watchers got scorched cheeks a mile away. Men who fought the blaze with foamite wondered whether the whole tank metropolis would go. But the wind was merciful. By next noon the last flicker was out. Total damage...