Word: state
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Lady Reading declared: "We must realize that people who have come from a bombed area are in a highly nervous state and that one of the things that helps them is to be allowed to talk about it. It is essential that a listener should give the whole of her attention to the person who is relating his or her experience. There must be no turning away for a second, no indication that one is not interested...
...British wartime insurance setup (which already includes Government participation in insurance of all shipping) as it stands today, The Economist of London commented with satisfaction: "As with all other problems of wartime finance, it is wrong to think of compensation for damaged property as a liability that 'the State' . . . can assume or not as it chooses. In wartime the State is the community and the community is the State. . . . The only question is whether [the loss] shall be shared equitably or inequitably. The decision has now been taken to share it equitably...
...learned educators, industrialists and doctors who had gathered to ponder these problems, famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike made a concrete proposal: let the U. S. establish State asylums for underprivileged geniuses to match its asylums for the feebleminded...
...Americans. By prearranged deals with the tail-end Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers, the Bears got the dickering rights to Michigan's Tom Harmon (the Eagles' first choice) and Stanford's Norman Standlee (the Steelers' first choice), in addition to their own selections: Ohio State's Don Scott and Boston College's Charley O'Rourke...
...young Protestant seminarians in 1939, only 100 were permitted ordination after their views had been examined by State officials. The other 900 refused to Nazify their faith, went into training in underground Confessional seminaries for certificates which Confessional congregations will accept in lieu of ordination. Cut off from any possibility of salaries from Nazi-levied church taxes, they must live on the scant $45 a month which the Confessional Synod can allow them...