Word: respectability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that any existing manufacturing plant or facility is necessary for the national defense and is unable to arrive at an agreement with the owner of such plant or facility for its use or operation . . . the Secretary, under the direction of the President, is authorized to institute condemnation proceedings with respect to such plant or facility and to acquire it ... the Secretary may take immediate possession of such plant or facility and operate it either by Government personnel or by contract with private firms pending the determination of the issues...
...another respect, the new educational emphasis on the war may prove unfortunate. To the student who is assailed on every side by unccasing if well-meant admonitions about his "duty," his "opportunity to serve," and so forth, the deside to escape will become well-nigh overwhelming. A "tonight be merry for tomorrow we die" spirit, never wholly absent in the college community, will feed on just such a desire, until it rises to fever pitch...
...will awake the yard from its summer lethargy on the morning of September twentieth as Harvard begins its three hundredth and fifth year. Starting with the perils of laundry venders and Lampoon salesmen, the new freshmen will embark on their career in Cambridge as a thoroughly typical class in respect to number and geographical distribution...
Italian King Vittorio Emanuele, who was the Senior Foreign Knight of the Garter and personally stands high in the regard of the British Royal Family, was gazetted out last week with utmost respect. The stall reserved for the Italian King in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, will merely remain vacant, instead of being assigned to some other Knight of the Garter. The knightly banner of the House of Savoy was not destroyed, but placed in the same storage vault which holds that of Kaiser Wilhelm...
...Western Hemisphere owe their desperate plight to their over-susceptibility to passionate love. Ancient Greeks and Romans, says he, regarded love as a mental aberration, an unqualified misfortune; Orientals so regard it today. Only in the Western world has it taken a hold in the mores, been accorded respect. Taking Tristan and Iseult as the archetypes of passion, he hangs on their necks more weight than Freud ever hung on Oedipus...