Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with and help build the labor movement, as we consider it to be the most progressive force in American life. We shall at all times oppose discrimination in any from, whether of color, national origin, religion, political belief, or sex, and we shall fight against fascism wherever it may manifest itself. We shall give our full support to the development of unity among all countries, especially the Great Powers, for without such unity the United Nations can never be an effective instrument for the preservation of world peace...
...Fund, whose wish was to make poetry live for as many people as possible. As President of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Gray expounded his theory that the "real love of art that brings happiness and inspiration to the heart of man is rare and does not manifest itself in clover criticism." Contrastingly, knowledge of art was in his opinion merely a "common, intellectual interest...
...might best set out from President Conant's statement of intent: "When you consider that probably three-quarters of the families of this country receive an annual income of $2500 or less, the inadequacies of small scholarships amounting to a quarter or a half of the total expense becomes manifest." If the National Scholarships are to continue to fill the role cut out for them by this picture of necessity, they must be measured against the yardstick of original purpose, especially in a period when the individual cost of education looms up as a national problem...
...Manifest & Open." In the Warsaw suburb of Praga, another election chairman told reporters, while the ballot box was still sealed, that 75% of the votes favored the Government bloc. He was not guessing; a neat variation on the secret ballot is to cast a vote "manifestly and openly" within clear sight of everyone at the polls. The P.P.R. (Communists) had formed its zealous members into trojki (trios) who had covered the country "inducing" voters to sign a pledge stating: "I commit myself to go to the elections and give my vote to the list of the [Government] bloc parties...
Says Dr. Stoll: "When we Americans manifest an unbecoming impatience at how slothful other peoples are in undertaking . . . steps to free themselves from [worm infection], let us ruminate on the extraordinary slowness demonstrated by a supposedly widely educated people to protect itself against trichinosis ... by the simple device of eating pork only when the trichinae in it have been cooked, say, to the consistency of medium-boiled eggs...