Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...William James Camp will exemplify the philosophy of the man after whom it is named, following his famous idea that the necessity in modern civilization is to provide young men with a "moral equivalent for war." This philosophical purpose is constantly kept before the group by Eugene Rosenstock-Heussy, professor of social philosophy at Dartmouth, who is directing the campaign, aided by the Harvard men and several Dartmouth graduates...
Having gained the backing of Mrs. Roosevelt, Dorothy Thompson, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, all of whom have done much to help the group, they submitted a petition to the government asking "for cooperation among rural communities, college men, and city youth." Paul V. McNutt, Commissioner of the Federal Securities Board, appointed a committee to consider the petition, one of whose members was Dean James M. Landis of the Law School. The plan was approved...
...group of 46 who deliberately avoided mathematics in high school surpassed their classmates in every college subject, including math...
Last summer members of the American Gastro-Enterological Society held a meeting in Atlantic City. As usual, they talked mostly about ulcers. The doctors could speak from bitter experience, for as a professional group they have a high percentage of ulcers. Last week the American Journal of Digestive Diseases printed the full debate. Since physicians have no sure cure, and surgeons can only cut out pieces of flesh, the doctors had plenty to argue about. The patient as usual was left holding his stomach. Drift of the argument...
...when they heard it, a sound anyone could recognize, the dull boom like the slamming of an underground door. Sixty miles to the east, at Woodbridge, N. J., the dust and debris settled over what had been the plant of United Railway Signal Corp., over a horrible group of ragged bundles that had been two men, six women...