Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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An outstanding army medical research worker throughout the Spanish-American War, General Russell introduced the U. S. Army to the use of anti-typhoid vaccine. He invented the Russell double-sugar medium for cultivation of typhoid bacilli, there by permitting the isolation of the baccilli for study.
A smothering blizzard delayed the Allies' mopping-up around Narvik last week. As advertised in advance (to give all who wished a chance to leave), British warships lying in Ofot Fjord shelled the town systematically. This fire discomfited the German troops-perhaps 1,000-who remained dug in there...
To cartoonists panting for a subject on which to exercise their talents, a Harvard man's map of the United States has always provided a ready field of endeavor -- that wonderful specimen of cartographic art which labels all land west of Boston as uninhabitable desert. Even within the sacred confines...
Richard L. Wetnberg will get a medal for taking extempore on "What efforts compatible with isolation should the United States take to maintain peace?", while the debaters came home empty-handed, since they lost the tossup with Bates deciding which of the tieing schools should keep the trophy.
But straight-thinking must reject this calculus of America's selfish interests on another count. Because it utterly neglects moral considerations it can never tell the whole story. Economically, in the Pacific, America may not perhaps be able to risk isolation. But at home, can she risk the destruction of...