Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall), eleven spotlights probed the platform where Socialist leaders fretfully shuffled back & forth under a huge wooden banner of a hammer and sickle and book (the Italian Socialist emblem). Delegates, observers and guests, filling the unheated auditorium to capacity, shivered in their overcoats. Pietro Nenni sat snugly at the rear of the platform, carefully concealed from view by a bowl of bright red carnations...
Many an old-line Navy officer wouldn't have given it another thought. Rear Admiral James Lemuel Holloway Jr. did. Not long afterwards, Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal put Holloway at the head of a ten-man board (including two civilian educators) to revamp Navy edu. cation. The Navy had realized that it would desperately need officers for the postwar fleet-far more than the Naval Academy could turn...
...Rear-Guard Action...
...Those who speak as if the humanities were fighting a rear-guard action in these days of science and technology and the common man," he said, "misunderstand the current scene...
Social Studies was the most popular area pursued by the Senior group, closely followed by Natural Sciences, and far in the rear was Arts, Letters, and Philosophy. The realm of Social Studies was the training ground for the majority of men planning business careers. This field shared honors with the area of Natural Sciences as the precursor of work in the field of teaching and other professions...