Word: isolationized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Needless to say, sabotage is a threat. Should construction work fall into the hands of a foreign power, havoc could be wrought behind the fences. By an ingenious system of tunnels, Widener could be drained of every learned periodical this side of the Reading Room. Then, too, the workers in...
Still there was something different about the Legion. The 3,000 Legionnaires who attended the convention sessions as delegates and alternates showed the changes. For 16 years the Legion had automatically adopted and re-adopted resolutions demanding U. S. neutrality, not to say isolation. Now, in 1940, the men who...
Older than the U. S., a year older as a university (1779) than Harvard, Pennsylvania played a big part in the founding of the Republic. Congress met in its old College Hall in 1778, 21 Penn men were members of the Continental Congress; ten signed the Declaration of Independence. Later...
The supply of ivory towers--traditional symbol of academic isolation from current events--is going to be a lot greater than the demand this year. Many a Harvard faculty member who has in the past cultivated an "objective" approach will in 1940 do an about-face. Emphasis will be placed...
Morally, the Belgians were resigned and bitter. They obeyed but did not fraternize with German soldiers. The Nazi soldiers, under strict military orders, committed no outrages; handbills invited Belgians to report misconduct by Germans to the police. As crushing to Belgians as German domination and approaching famine was their complete...