Word: groundwork
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...even in its present form is Ec A intended to complete the theoretical groundwork of the concentrator. For that purpose the Department offers two basic courses in theory--Ec 2a, a half-year course, and Ec 1, open only to candidates for Honors. While 2a is too dull to be controversial, Ec 1 is a sprightly study in confusion. Discussion is lively and disorderly; agricultural tractors are freely converted into printing presses; and everybody catches on just in time to earn the expected A or B. Anchored only to the graphs on the blackboard, Ec 1 floats freely...
...Churchill again will brush aside this statement of mine by saying that it is merely born of fear and of doubt in our final victory. In that case I shall have relieved my conscience in regard to the things to come." But if Hitler did not lay effective groundwork for possible peace negotiations, he had succeeded in putting out some propaganda to undermine British morale (see p. 22) and once more wrapped himself in the mantle of an apostle of righteousness hounded into...
...Sheldon does not claim that mere body-typing solves the relation of physique to all aspects of temperament. But he does claim that efficient and "meaningful" body-typing lays the groundwork for solving such problems...
Another problem which would come up is that of providing a groundwork for the necessary large-scale planning, "in terms of those phases of economics, of sociology, of public administration and public finance, which bear on education as a national undertaking...
Dick Harlow and his coaching aides will be on hand in Briggs Cage this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock to greet about 35 gridiron hopefuls, anxious to lay the Spring groundwork for one of the most ambitious football schedules Harvard has ever undertaken. The Spring session will extend until about May 1, with a week's break for Easter vacation...