Word: doubtlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...structure of society in France or anywhere else." The few gourmands who still fancy that pulpy, parsnippy root, which is no kin to the conelike epicurean artichoke (Cynara scolymus), claim that the Jerusalem artichoke tastes best after it has been frozen m the ground. Most of society will doubtless remain content to leave it there, and take a chance with the subversive spud...
...American effort and the American soldier in Korea are magnificent. Doubtless we could and should have been better prepared. But the more important fact is that never before in all our history have we been so nearly prepared at the start of any war as we were at the start of this one. Today we have in Korea more men and more arms than we sent to the invasion of North Africa in November of 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor...
...Stragglers. Days later, Taejon's beaten defenders were still straggling through to the new U.S. lines south of the city. More were doubtless lost but still alive in the surrounding hills. One sergeant had wandered for 33 miles through the hills in his bare feet. An Arkansas lieutenant showed up clad only in his shorts. But many of Taejon's defenders did not make it at all. Among the missing: TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder (see PRESS...
...Bloody Professors. The keenest political observer alive in the 20th Century, in a typically Churchillian phrase, once privately called the men in the Kremlin "those ruthless and bloody-minded professors." No Westerner knew much about what went on inside their grisly university, where last week the faculty was doubtless researching the pros & cons of the next possible moves. The West did, however, know what the campus looked like...
...give every course and investigate every segment of every field. The reason for this is partly inertia . . . and partly vanity. One university cannot hold up its head if the university next door has a school of animal husbandry and it has none . . . Although this kind of comparison is doubtless better for the universities than appraising them in terms of their football scores, its educational consequence is mediocrity and its financial consequence is ruin. Inertia and vanity are luxuries that endowed universities can no longer afford...