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But another cause may lie in the experience of so many new postwar faculty members with their own use of education as a means of social advancement.
Another major postwar shift was toward the development of conglomerates, in which large corporations purchased smaller corporations to expand their industrial base.
As before the war, Datsun closely patterned their cars on contemporary Austin products: postwar, the Devon and Somerset were selected.
Controversially, this defined " persons of German ethnic origin " who had been expelled, or were to be expelled from their countries of birth into the postwar Germany, as individuals who would " not be the concern of the Organization.
All postwar Japanese governments have relied on a close relationship with the United States as the foundation of their foreign policy and have depended on the mutual security treaty for strategic protection.
Chrysler Jeep claims it has the exclusive rights to use the seven vertical slits since it is the sole remaining assignee of the various companies since Willys gave their postwar jeeps seven slots instead of Ford's nine-slot design for the Jeep.
Over time, the club has become a symbol of the nation's culture and italianità (" Italianness "), due to their tradition of success, some of which have had a significant impact in Italian society, especially in the 1930s and the first postwar decade ; and the ideological politics and socio-economic origin of the club's sympathisers.
In both France and Italy, the crisis of the postwar era had provided fuel for their Communist Parties, which had become well organized in the resistance movements of the war.
The film follows the two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan.
Kazin ( 1998 ) says, " The liberals who anxiously turned back the assault of the postwar Right were confronted in the 1960s by a very different adversary: a radical movement led, in the main, by their own children.
Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the social generation of Boomers as the cohorts born from 1943 to 1960, who were too young to have any personal memory of World War II, but old enough to remember the postwar American High.
The bikes produced by Aermacchi were quite successful in the postwar Italian market, partly due to their use on race tracks.
As allies of the Patriots, the Oneida Nation was allocated land by the United States in the postwar settlement for a reservation near Oneida Lake, in their traditional homeland.
In the postwar treaty, the four Iroquois nations who had been allies of the British were forced to cede their lands ; most of their peoples had already migrated to Canada to escape the worst of the fighting on the frontier after Sullivan's Raid.
* 1946: Air Liquide creates La Spirotechnique and starts to sell Cousteau-Gagnan sets under the names of scaphandre Cousteau-Gagnan (' Cousteau-Gagnan scuba set '), CG45 (" C " for Cousteau, " G " for Gagnan and " 45 " for 1945, year of their first postwar patent ) or Aqua-Lung, the latter for commercialization in English-speaking countries.
Stone uses this scene to give Gekko, and by extension, the Wall Street raiders he personifies, the chance to justify their actions, which he memorably does, pointing out the slothfulness and waste that corporate America accumulated through the postwar years and from which he sees himself as a " liberator ".
were champions of Cornwall in 1955 / 56 and have been in existence over a hundred years ; their most notable player was Harry Cann who was goalkeeper for Plymouth Argyle F. C .. Until the 1930s there were two golf courses and a few tennis courts: neither golf course reopened in the postwar period.
He was critical of the Truman administration and the military for their postwar policies in Germany, accusing Truman and General Dwight D. Eisenhower of a conspiracy to starve the remains of the German nation.
In July 1941, U. S. troops entered Iceland on the invitation of Sveinn's government and remained, in reduced numbers, after the war ; their continued presence provoked the main controversy of the nation's postwar foreign policy.
Around the postwar period, rōkyoku ( or naniwa-bushi ), famous during the war, declined in popularity mainly because their speaking lengths were considered too long.
This event became the basis of a widely-circulated postwar tall tale that the captain of this U-boat, Heinrich Timm, had led crewmen ashore near Napier to milk cows in order to supplement their meagre rations.
The postwar Robertson Panel cited foo fighter reports, noting that their behavior did not appear to be threatening, and mentioned possible explanations, for instance that they were electrostatic phenomena similar to St. Elmo's fire, electromagnetic phenomena, or simply reflections of light from ice crystals.

their and writings
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
They both measure literature by moral standards, and in their political writings both allow for censorship, but the differences between them are also significant.
Had More's writings been wholly limited to such exercises, they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or so other authors living in his time, whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works.
Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.
Simone de Beauvoir tries to base an ethics on Heidegger's and Sartre's writings ( The Ethics of Ambiguity ), where she highlights the need to grapple with ambiguity: " as long as philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it ... And the ethics which they have proposed to their disciples has always pursued thre same goal.
Van Vogt and his wife opened their own Dianetics centre, partly financed by his writings, until he " signed off " around 1961.
In 1816 Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary Shelley visited Geneva and all three were inspired by the scenery in their writings.
The Bahá ' í writings also state there are distinctions between souls in the afterlife, and that souls will recognize the worth of their own deeds and understand the consequences of their actions.
These creations and writings were an apprenticeship for their later, literary talents.
Some of economist Thomas Sowell's writings ( Intellectuals and Society ) suggest that academicians and intellectuals have an undeserved " halo effect " and face fewer disincentives than other professions against speaking outside their expertise.
When the apostles died, they were replaced by their writings.
According to Stalin's biographer, Simon Sebag Montefiore, the Boss was well aware that Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Bulgakov were geniuses, but ordered their writings suppressed.
Jasmuheen claims that their beliefs are based on the writings and " more recent channelled material " from St. Germain.
In time, their writings, together with the Analects and other core texts came to constitute the philosophical corpus of Confucianism.
The Roman author Vitruvius, relying on the writings ( now lost ) of Greek authors, tells us that the ancient Greeks believed that their Doric order developed from techniques for building in wood in which the earlier smoothed tree trunk was replaced by a stone cylinder.
Architects of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods in Europe based their rules on Vitruvius ' writings.
" However, during the reading of Leo's Tome, three passages were challenged as being potentially Nestorian, and their orthodoxy was defended by using the writings of Cyril.
It was indeed a superstitious age, but made much more so by their operations, influence, and writings, beginning with Increase Mather's movement at the assembly of Ministers in 1681 and ending with Cotton Mather's dealings with the Goodwin children, and the account thereof which he printed and circulated far and wide.
With the writings of Théophile de Donder as precedent, Ilya Prigogine and Defay in Chemical Thermodynamics ( 1954 ) defined chemical affinity in terms of the uncompensated heat of reaction Q the reaction progress variable or reaction extent ξ ; as the ratio of their infinitesimal increments:
Frederick Douglass, William Garrison, Horace Greeley, Harriet Stowe, William Seward, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, and Cassius Clay used the term caste, rather than race or class, in their writings and speeches to discuss and inspire America to abolish slavery.
" It is likely that we have only a partial view of their beliefs, because the writings of the Cathars were mostly destroyed due to the doctrinal threat perceived by the Papacy ; much of our existing knowledge of the Cathars is derived from their opponents.
By the 12th to 13th centuries A. D., monks were preparing illuminated manuscripts on vellum and parchment in monasteries throughout Europe and were using lead styli to draw lines for their writings and for the outlines for their illuminations.

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