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...have a fiührer complex about Mr. Hutchins . . . the best and wisest man I know. ... I think he is bored running [the] colossal war plant [which] the University of Chicago now is. ... So ... he decided to stage a one-man commando raid on the unguarded shrine of Let-Well-Enough-Alone. ... I believe that Mr. Hutchins is a menace to all the sacred precepts that have produced the glorious civilization we are now enjoying...
...year men from industry, have either the experience or the ability to select from tens of thousands of manufacturers those who are to be permitted to produce, and from thousands of items, those which are to be produced. The decisions that would have to be made are too numerous, complex and interlocking, and there is too much scope for bias and prejudice." Five days after the Truman speech, the War Production Board announced a special committee, under its executive vice chairman Charles E. Wilson, to plan progressive reconversion...
Other Dominion Prime Ministers talked of such complex matters as unified foreign policy, Dominion spheres of influence, but Sir Godfrey's aim was simple. He wanted only the right people to exploit a virgin land...
...brain - the image spread out over a wider area, into parts of the brain not primarily concerned with sight. Dr. Adrian suggests that this spreading activity in the brain represents the reaction of the brain cells to the image, i.e., an approach to thinking. But his recordings of this complex process are so confusing and difficult to interpret that "the present technique of recording brain events, by oscillographs connected with electrodes on the head, is not likely to lead very far." Nonetheless, Dr. Adrian is sure, on the basis of progress already made, that new instruments will be developed that...
...talks to the children about various groups they know - Mexicans, Filipinos, Negroes-describes their backgrounds, shows that primitiveness does not mean stupidity, that "simple" peoples have complex cultures. She also tells them about physical anthropology, teaches them that race is not the same as religion or nationality...