Word: assess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purpose of "Operation Musk-Ox," said National Defense, is to study "winter operations generally in the Arctic weather zone," to assess "the mobility of oversnow vehicles." But everyone knew that any foreseeable war would not be won-or even fought-with tracked motor vehicles. What soldiers knew was that the polar icecap was no longer an impenetrable natural defense on Canada's topside. So "certain technical research projects in Arctic air and ground warfare will [also] be studied. . . . The expedition is expected to obtain information of immense value...
...Bill Is Totaled. Now that it had time to assess the war damage, the Philippines Chamber of Commerce estimated the cost of needed machinery and equipment at a staggering one billion pesos ($500,000,000). Most businessmen pinned their hopes for new capital on war damage payments from the U.S. But the U.S. as yet has made no decision on paying them. The Commonwealth, with a budget of 400,000,000 pesos and income of 7,000,000 pesos, has no cash to hand out to anybody...
...traditional method whereby British parties assess their vote is based on a personal canvass of voters in each constituency immediately after the election campaign opens, again in the middle of the campaign, and finally just before voting. On polling day, it is customary for checkers at the polling booths to ask each voter for his polling number, which gives a clue to his name and address in the electoral register. These checkers often find out from the voter whom he has voted for. The ballot is secret, but many voters, especially Laborites, are quite willing to reveal their vote. Estimates...
...Americans must make is a serious one-even if only a tithe of what each party has said of the other is true. And all the written words, the stares of the millions of eyes, are concentrated on Challenger Dewey with one intent: to divine his true character, to assess his true worth, to measure him against the well-known qualities of Franklin Roosevelt...
...assess the worth of these works in American terms it is not enough to apply ordinary standards of literary criticism. The war is the thing, and as one writer says: "It is better to be without literary criticism than without victory." The only fair test is to see whether writers have fulfilled their aims. According to the chairman of the Writers' Union, their aims are, first, "to tell the truth about the war," and second, "to feel the heart and soul of the Soviet...