Word: mins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seattle, Coach Tom Bolles' crack Harvard, crew rowed the 2,000-meter Olympic distance in a record 5 min. 49 sec. In doing so, Harvard, which always passes up Poughkeepsie, defeated nine of the eleven crews which raced at Poughkeepsie a fortnight ago. Navy, the Poughkeepsie winner, did not show up at Seattle, but the Harvard crew had already beaten Navy this season, was thus apparently the crew of the year...
...successor to veteran Editor Percy Cole, another onetime newsman, Tom O'Donoghue will boss a staff of 18 crack (180 words per min. or better) shorthand reporters. They work in pairs-15 minutes at a stretch-in the curtained press gallery above the Speaker's chair. Sometimes Hansard gets things wrong, but it's official, even so, and its bound volumes can be quoted in a court of law. Hansard never identifies a man's party, only his district: he is supposedly representing his entire constituency. When Emanuel Shinwell slapped Commander Bower in 1938 for saying...
...Communism is belief in the necessity of the class struggle: "Communism in China will fail because it creates an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust within the family." Chen says he is not opposed to Socialism. He points to the Three People's Principles of Sun Yat-sen-San Min Chu I-nationalism, democracy and livelihood for the people. To him, the "People's Livelihood'' principle means, one day, social insurance, free health services and schools everywhere; no concentration of capital or land ownership; more cooperatives; key industries owned by the state...
...nearest counterpart in the West of Chen's interpretation of San Min Chu I? He answers: "The evolutionary program, of the British Labor Party." This is only half true. Chen is certainly against capitalist free enterprise, which he would regard as too individualistic, competitive and disorderly. But his Socialism contains little of Herbert Morrison's regard for personal liberty or Morrison's preoccupation with economics...
...from the coast to the interior, away from the Japanese. But while Chen encouraged practical subjects (a country at war needs engineers), he cut down on history, economics and politics. His advice to students: study-quietly and make no trouble. Extracurricular activities disappeared, except for Chiang's San Min Chu I Youth Group, a movement for training the young in hsiao and cheng, and in such un-Chinese pastimes as swimming. The Education Ministry started a bureau to "guide the thoughts and control the actions" of students, abroad as well as at home. When criticized for using "thought police...