Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drill corps has been virtually dropped from the scheme under consideration, since a spontaneous demand for it is lacking. The extent of the lecture program and special courses is conditioned on the response the first experimental offerings receive...
...Schuster editorial scheme was to concentrate on letters that reflect "the great personalities, the great events, the great ideas of history." The anthology opens with the somewhat acrid correspondence of Alexander the Great and Darius III (circa 334 B.C.), closes with Thomas Mann's warning to his age. St. Paul counsels the quarrelsome Corinthians ("the greatest of these is charity"). The Younger Pliny is baffled by the early Christians ("if they persevered, I ordered them to be executed"). St. Jerome eyewitnesses the Barbarian sack of Rome ("the wolves of the North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects...
...effort to bring about closer athletic relations between Ivy schools the News suggestion embodied a plan for a conference of coaches, athletic directors, and undergraduate representatives. Under the proposed scheme each school would have three representatives on the conference board...
...Canadian press spoke out. Said the Toronto Telegram: "The whole program looks like a political sideshow designed to put up a front of doing something without arousing ill feeling on the part of those who are called up." Said the Globe & Mail: "All military experts reject [the scheme] as comparatively useless. . . . Soldiers who had barely learned to shoulder arms and form threes would be no more effective against the highly trained and mechanized forces of the enemy we are now fighting than an unorganized mob equipped with pitchforks...
Late in 1938, while Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax were trying to appease Mussolini, De Man went to see Romains in Paris, told him of a scheme to have a peace conference called by one of the five sovereigns of northern Europe (Belgium's King Leopold, Norway's King Haakon, Sweden's King Gustaf, Denmark's King Christian, The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina). Four of them were to write to the fifth (Leopold) urging him to save the peace of Europe; then Leopold was to appeal to Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler...