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...however, it is not sufficient for an individual to profess a faith; actions alone mark the believer. During my last trip with the Chinese Communists I carried a copy of the New Testament and read the Gospels daily, with a view to comparing the precepts of Jesus with the pattern of life I observed around me. My conclusion at the end of the trip was that the Chinese Communists were practising, Christians, though they did not profess that faith...
...China, in 1940-41, that I became convinced that the Kuomintang would never bring democracy and its benefits to the Chinese people. On the other hand, I was convinced as early as 1938 that the people in the Communist-controlled areas were benefiting by the social-economic-political pattern that was being developed there...
...make bottles, metal works for bottle caps, paper plants for labels and cartons. The Sadas, Muguerzas and Garzas, the families who brewed the famed Carta Blanca and Bohemia, came to a large extent to control Monterrey's 600-odd industries. The brewery also set Monterrey's labor pattern, with independent (i.e., company) unions for its 4,000 employes, one of the most elaborate social centers in Mexico, evening classes, free beer, swimming pools, free medical clinics, and interest-free loans for those who wanted to buy their own homes...
Although the Chinese have adopted the pattern of the English common law, Pound said that he had urged their teachers of law to pursue a course of education, interpretation, and application of exiting codes, through traditional juristic means...
...hitched another photoelectric cell to a telescope, this time Mt. Wilson's giant 100-incher. As the bands raced past, they knocked from the cell a fluctuating electric current. Dr. Whitford shot the current into an "oscilloscope" to make the fluctuations visible. He took a picture of their pattern of peaks and valleys, then measured the diffraction bands, and from them calculated the diameter of the star...