Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Civil Aeronautics Authority...
Breaking through the near-monopoly which American Defense, Harvard Group, has on Faculty opinion, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Philosophy, and Civil Polity, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy protested American entrance into the war to establish "a new balance of power" in Europe...
Outside the capital, civil war came next. At Craiova and Turnu-Severin, Army and Iron Guard battalions battled in the streets in open warfare. At Brasov the Iron Guard captured the telephone exchange and post office, was routed in bloody counter-attacks by the Army. From Bulgaria came word of artillery fire in the Rumanian Danube port of Giurgiu...
Died. Colonel George Brinton McClellan, 75 (son of Civil War General George B. McClellan, who lost the Seven Days' Battles), mayor of New York City from 1903 to 1909, lecturer on economics and public affairs at Princeton until his retirement in 1930; in Washington...
...America is now wholly given over to a d-d mob of scribbling women," growled staid Nathaniel Hawthorne some years before the Civil War. Many of the novels which they produced, says Bowdoin Professor Herbert Ross Brown, "deserve to appear on any list of the world's worst fiction." Yet he feels that these novels of "handkerchiefly" feeling deserve his 400-page study as clues to the early literary aspirations of the U. S., which have something of the charm of Currier & Ives prints...