Word: conservationism
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<| Miss Fern Collier, 48, whose junior and senior classes in citizenship and the problems of democracy at Oklahoma City's John Marshall Junior-Senior High School are the very model of what the society-centered classroom should be. Instead of teaching history solely as a narrative series of events...
What happened? It was not nature that changed. The land remains, the rains still fall, the rivers flow in the same measure. But under the pounding of warriors and nomads, the ancients' brilliantly intricate system of water conservation disintegrated. Hulagu Khan- and his Mongol hordes rode out of Central...
In brief, by espousing liberalism Holden makes conservation very attractive. He is so clean-cut that he is greasy. He is so sincere that he is glib. The friendship he shows for the factory workers stems from the overwhelming consideration that "Happy workers are efficient workers," not from any basic...
One Perón speech contained a major surprise. Coolly blaming Argentina's meager development of its oil resources on the conservation policies of his opposition when it held power, Nationalist Perón announced that he was going to let foreigners "extract oil and Deliver it to us...
Many a state now has soil-conservation laws that permit authorities to "list" or "chisel" the uncared-for land and tax its owner for the expense. All over the plains last week the fight against soil erosion was going on. But such work-and particularly the job of getting grass...