Word: exceptionality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegation has always been, except for Mr. Fisher, and still is agreed that the DP project is far more vital than any other project. Contrary to your story, the delegation was informed at its first meeting (by myself) that, with far greater facilities than Harvard's a national organization was being set up with the backing of NSA, NICC, the Newman Clubs, Billel, and WSSF to take care of student DP's. Harvard NSA offered, and still offers to help with the national project in any way requested...
...others are already taking care of such; and (c) only if we are convinced that the student DP project is being competently handled by others, both nationally and regionally, to take on an alternative project, namely the Tri-Nation tour. This, please observe, is identical with our regional report except for the addition of the alternative project. Frederic D. Roughteling '50 NSA Delegate
...that they can do any harm by themselves. But when you get a large organization, full of pep and eager to do something with social significance, and without a single thought in its collective head that has anything to do with what is going on in the world except that it likes "our American way of life," you have the perfect set-up for any effective demagogue to take over so long as he seems to be for the "American system...
...speaks one language and often writes a quite different one. The dialect he writes is dictated by his paper's "style-book." As papers, like people, are crusty with peculiarities, the regional variations of this newspaper lingo have to be learned by the men who write it. Except on chains, no two papers' rules are ever quite the same...
...France, the Voice's programs are listed in all radio magazines, including the Communist Radio Revue which, at the same time, editorially warns against listening to "le pick-up Americain." France is the only European country except Greece that relays a Voice program on its own medium wave band. The Voice's local director, Simon Copans, also runs three weekly disc-jockey shows specializing in American music...