Word: creations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Liddell Hart ends "Wasted Brains" with this terse thought: "It is not too late." Last week-very late, but perhaps not too late-the War Office announced the creation of a new post: Commander of the Royal Armored Corps. Named to fill it was Major General Giffard Le Quesne Martel...
...undersigned, students and faculty of Harvard," it begins, "strongly oppose entrance into the war. We approve all material aid to Britain compatible with this policy of non-intervention, and support the creation of an impregnable defense of the western hemisphere...
...Society of Mechanical Engineers. There he gave a powerful sermon about the facts of contemporary life. He told off the experts of Information Please for not knowing who does what on the Defense Commission; praised the new kind of "epic" leadership British labor has given democracy; called for the creation of a council to plan post-war prosperity...
Blackmur's rigorousness is hard to take straight. Like a literary Cotton Mather, he burdens the creative conscience with almost more than it should bear, forgets that creation is a shade more to the point than anything that can be said about it. But it is through such painful filters as his that excellence is passed uninfected from generation to generation...
...missed. But it can be filled, by the creation of a Harvard Outing Club. Harvardian reserve permits the raising of this plan because to date every other college in the region has O. C's. And no visible obstacle except lack of inactive stands in the way. For skiing and hiking three sections especially could be exploited at a minimum cost, the O. C. using the already extant Youth Hostels, available for a dollar per head; around Plymouth, N. H., Stowe, Vt., and Putney School, southern Vermont. Here both the beginner, who longs for the graceful swells of a golf...