Word: groundwork
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...With the groundwork laid for schizophrenia, or at feast amnesia, the plot switches to Gaslight: Claudette, it turns out, is the victim of an elaborate frame-up. After using a lot of fancy psychiatric jargon in analyzing the heroine's condition, the script finally reveals the villain as melodrama's oldfashioned "mad fiend." Still unsolved: Who framed Actress Colbert into the role...
...leaders of the Reformation, says Historian Stokes, though he credits neither Luther nor Calvin with any inclination to practice it themselves. It was rather the radical fringe of Protestantism-the Anabaptists, Mennonites and Quakers-whose protests against ecclesiastical institutionalism and state control of conscience began to lay the groundwork for religious liberty as it is known today. Though the Puritans came to the New World in search of religious freedom, they were not interested in tolerance for anyone else. Typical of 17th Century New England, says Stokes, is a couplet found in the pocket of Massachusetts Governor Joseph Dudley after...
Marion Folsom has been a sparkplug of C.E.D. since it was first organized in 1942. He helped lay the groundwork for the Social Security Act of 1935, has made Eastman Kodak's pension and profit-sharing plans so successful that they are imitated by many other U.S. companies. He has also urged that Social Security be expanded to cover everyone and that benefits be raised...