Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this plan into effect would have to be undertaken by the State Department with British and German representatives. Both belligerents would have to assure the food ships safe passage through blockaded and submarine-haunted waters. Neither has anything to gain from the sufferings of peoples unable now to count in the balance of military power. Upon the shoulders of the recalcitrant party would rest the responsibility for whatever calamities may eventuate from a foodless Europe this winter...
Each section man ought to state, in his first meeting, exactly how much class oral work, class written work, and exams are going to count on the year's grade. And if and when he feels that any student is cutting so much that his mark is liable to be lowered, he should let that student know it. The Harvard cut system is so general that the student and the section man must work in close cooperation, if it is to function satisfactorily. As it is now, the clever student often takes advantage of the section man, while the unwary...
...last week most U. S. citizens had recovered their normal temperature after a feverish election. Once again World War II took over the headlines. The radio returned to straightforward entertainment. Here & there a deadlocked election still awaited the final count. There were the customary post-election cries of fraud, demands for recounts, for changes in the rules. But for most people the campaign was over and done with. Some tag ends...
...Ramon Serrano Suner went on to Berchtesgaden for his third visit to Big Boss Hitler within two months. Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano met him at Salzburg. Day earlier Bulgaria's Tsar Boris III secretly visited the Fuhrer in Berlin. With so much diplomatic activity, and with the air war over Britain and the sea war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean gaining fury, the Second World War moved inexorably toward a new and greater climax...
...weather a year in advance. Legend has it that the publisher, pressed by a typesetter for a July 13 forecast, replied hastily: "Anything, anything." The impish employe set up "Rain, Hail and Snow." On July 13, sure enough, it rained, hailed and snowed.* A Providence, R. I. clerk kept count of the Old Farmer's forecast for 1900. It was 33% correct- 2% below the U. S. Weather Bureau's day-ahead record...