Word: laissez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind of a hard-digging student. In his 65 years he has been a professor of political science, a biographer, an art critic, a newspaper publisher and an amateur artist. He is an old-fashioned German politician, from his high white collar to his economic liberalism of the Manchester laissez-faire school...
...holdup men started back to their car, the Aga called them back, reminded them they had not taken his wallet, and handed it over. It contained about $600. As they left, the bandits said: "Soyez braves et laissez nous partir [Be good sports and let us get away...
...believe that justice must be accorded the natives, Dutch interests should remain paramount. Because of Indonesia's importance to Netherland economy, an economy near bankruptcy because of the war, it behooves the U. S., for the sake of the E.R.P., to have Dutch interests remain predominant. The means "laissez-faire." The use of the U.N. as suggested by Senator Brewster to coerce the Netherlands into an impossible settlement with the Republican "de facto" government seems to this reader analogous to the U.N.'s condonation of U. S. support to the Greek government, and to the diplomatic support accorded the Jews...
...Leadership. Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft, president of the U.S. Federal Council of Churches and brother of Republican Senator Robert A. Taft, promptly tried to modify the condemnation of capitalism. He proposed inserting the phrase "the wholly self-regulating laissez-faire theory of capitalism" (i.e., pushing the condemnation back to the days of the 19th Century robber barons). The council accepted only the adjective "laissez-faire...
...undoubtedly true; to this extent, individualism is highly desirable. But the Harvard College of 1948 is substantially different from the Harvard College of the 1900's; the growth both in the size of the curriculum and the size of the student body has created evils within the traditional laissez-faire of the College...