Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these present moments, no spiritual leader, no civil leader can move forward on a specific plan to terminate destruction and build anew. Yet the time for that will surely come...
...nothing about the "fixer." Unhappily for Sheriff Pollack, public indignation was not appeased. "In the interest of law and order in Erie County," the Buffalo Evening News last week proposed that the New York Legislature let Erie County elect no more sheriffs, perhaps substitute a non-political employe under Civil Service. Buffalo and Erie County have come a long way since 1872. Their sheriff then was Grover Cleveland, who later was to be called the only U. S. President who ever hanged...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco won his civil war in Spain, but his country was so exhausted at the war's end that Spain's weight in international affairs remains negligible...
...McGill University. Canadian farmers as well as scholars have reason to honor him because he did much to eliminate wheat rust. His early ideas about soldiering were radical: he was against Army bands, as too glamorous, and uniforms, because he wanted to see universal defense training for the civil population. These ideas faded as his passion for mathematical precision advanced him. His checking for artillery fire last time in France was so good that sometimes his barrage shots, before Canadian advances, blasted German guns before they could get their muzzle and breech covers off. Soldiers, in Canada and elsewhere, rate...