Word: unearthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...culture . . . a common core of knowledge": the aim is further to do this within the framework of modern needs for specialized training. Skeptics who have doubted that the Report's golden intentions can find effective translation into the College organism and outright ill-wishers who fear "educational tyranny" will unearth only fleeting surface encouragements--little in substance--for their case in the results of the Student Council's April poll of students in the eight trial courses...
...Vachel Lindsay. "The only governor of Illinois sure to be named by remote generations," wrote another, Carl Sandburg. Ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker thought him "a genuinely great man"; so did Brand Whitlock, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium; so did, and do, numberless others. The latest to unearth and praise the forgotten eagle is able, young (32), leftist Novelist Howard Fast (The Last Frontier, The Unvanquished, a New Masses assistant editor). Fast retells the John Peter Altgeld story in a fictionalized biography: The American, A Middle Western Legend...
These facts, set down in official memoranda by former Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (who was at the Atlantic Charter meeting), were introduced last week into the records of the Pearl Harbor investigation. They were of little value to Republicans, who had hoped to unearth some evidence that the late President had sought a way to wangle the U.S. into war. Cracked one Senator: "About the only thing this investigation has shown is how isolationist Franklin Roosevelt really...
Whether or not the investigation will unearth many new facts about the U.S.'s greatest military debacle was open to question. But one thing was sure: it will be shot through with politics-on both sides...
With cash prizes and possible publication in "Wake" or "Pro Tem" offered as inducement, the international Club of Harvard and Radcliffe is at present conducting a contest to unearth latent talent for poetry in the University...