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...need speech training at Harvard or Radcliffe. Note that I don't say--for those who want speech training. For I believe that if more courses were offered both qualitatively and quantitatively, and their desirability made known, a great many more students would be taking speech. As the result, abler citizens would be graduating from these institutions...
...never joined any plots against Hitler, but he often opposed the Führer's plans and acts, was three times removed from command, and in the end came to despise a man he sometimes called "Corporal Hitler." B. H. Liddell Hart says that von Rundstedt was an abler soldier than Field Marshal von Hindenburg-of World War I-abler even than the Hindenburg-Ludendorff combination-and adds: "Gerd von Rundstedt was a gentleman to the core. His natural dignity and good manners inspired the respect even of those who differed widely from his views...
...sorts of projects. But he is also a familiar figure far beyond his own 700 acres. Last week, when the American Council on Education wanted someone to head a new committee to study Government scientific research grants to universities ($100-150 million a year), it could think of no abler man than Virgil Hancher...
Although the plan is "a program for education in general," the chairman said that it would probably "raise educational standards" as well, and "move abler boys through faster than now possible...
...even total command is a qualified thing, to be held only with the fullest exercise of journalistic responsibility. Said John Cowles: "If a monopoly newspaper is really bad, then it won't last as a monopoly. New competition by abler and more socially moral newspapermen will eventually displace and supersede...