Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chamberlain tried to comfort the home front, but his main theme was to reassure the neutrals suffering from the British blockade. "We do not for one moment question the rights of neutrals to decide whether they shall come into the conflict or stay out of it," he said. "But we...
...never again will Harvard accept them as complacently as it used to. The Faculty has lately shown, through its consideration of the Student Council Report and the recommendation for wide area fields of concentration, that it is questioning the fundamentals of Harvard's educational process. Whatever kind of new structure is built, it must be made proof against the parasites of Harvard Square, and so must provide within the University for all legitimate tutoring needs. Attempts to do this have so far hardly had time to prove their effectiveness. But they show the way that the University must...
Stockholder Rich was sore. He owned 17,382 shares of Barnsdall Refining which the plan reduced to 1,738.2 The stockholders whose proxies he held were in the same boat. Stockholder Rich told Barnsdall Refining's President Oscar L. Cordell and Barnsdall Oil's President E. B. Reeser...
The logic of this argument is impelling. Against it are the now familiar arguments that no peace, however negotiated, can be more than a truce unless Hitler is destroyed; and that the powers would not consider a peace suggestion for a moment.
"War Compels." The ousted War Secretary began by saying that he would really have preferred not to speak at all. "I offer to my successor any help or counsel I can give," he went on, and the House cheered his magnanimity to new War Secretary Oliver Stanley. There may have...