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State minimum requirements cannot insure that able students are "sufficiently encouraged to elect a broad, stiff program of academic subjects," he pointed out, adding that "At the local level, however, a good deal can be done by counselors and by the development of the proper spirit in the school and the community by the principal and superintendent...
...Question of Country. A lean, grey eagle of a man, Hanson Baldwin at 56 still stands as ramrod stiff as when he graduated from Annapolis in 1924. He has been the Times's military analyst since 1937, won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1942 series on combat in the South Pacific that included the disclosure of the U.S. plight on Guadalcanal. Working his beat, Baldwin first came across Argus "some weeks" before the late August and early September tests, got together the outline of the project "without limitation...
...coaches have made it clear that the journey will be anything but a pleasure ride for the squad. There will be two stiff workouts every day, and the team will stay in the college dormitories. Informal competition and intrasquad meets will keep the team at a fine competitive edge...
...constitution established by the conqueror, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, in 1946. Since then, strange rents have appeared in the densely woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito's public disavowal of the "false conception" of his own divinity, and the sweeping abolition of the stiff-necked nobility, to the entirely novel proposition (in famed Article 24 of the constitution) of equal marital status for women. Michiko partook of these changes in the protected society of one of Japan's newly rich families. For millions of other Japanese women it has been a wrenching experience...
Luxuriating in her new ability to go about by herself, to movies or coffeehouses or department stores, the city woman derides the old system, thinks that Michiko Shoda is mad to want to live the stiff, formal life of the imperial family...