Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...active part of the League's program. Under the direction of members of the Faculty, groups of from eight to twelve gather once a week to investigate the major problems, that face them. One of the most thorough probing conducted was into the workings of the Ghandi passive resistance method; another, a discussion of Clarence Streit's "Union...
Contracts for constructing the interior have not yet been signed. Parkhurst said, because officials haven't decided whether to weld or hold the building's framework. The cheapest method of construction, riveting, has been banned because of the noise, which according to Parkhurst would cause the resignation of every professor working in Widener...
...bitter over Harvard's recent outburst. We simply look upon it as a clever piece of publicity and a method whereby the Old Grads will be ready for the coming change of policy at that Boston school. Of course this impending change of policy has not been made known to the press of the nation but what news of it does seep out, we are certain that it will cause repercussions throughout the country. Since we learned of this change from an unusually reliable source, we do not hesitate to pass it on. When we heard of this, we intended...
...dangers on the other are equally menacing and real. To equate the status quo with perfection has been the insidious disease of every civilization. To stifle criticism is the method of all who have privilege and enjoy it. It is the method by which a ruling class endeavors to sustain through the generations its rights and power. Complacency will sap the courage of a nation as readily as will destructive self-criticism...
...tain told his own country. He made only suggestions to the nation which will, unless defeated, give France its actual Order when it gets around to it. "Doubtless Germany . . . can choose between the traditional peace of suppression and a wholly new peace of collaboration. Germany may prefer the new method to the misery, strife, repressions and conflicts of peace in the old manner. . . . First choice of course rests with the victor. . . .If all roads are closed to us, we shall know how to suffer and wait." Thus France knelt to her conqueror...