Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The other major aspect of the University's contribution to the war effort was more a superimposing of outside organizations upon an academic community than a utilization of existing facilities, but despite their transient military character, the service schools became an integral part of the University during their five-year...
No cleaning woman could be let in, because the workers were busy at all hours and highly secret papers were strewn everywhere. The only decorations were cobwebs until one of the group, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Caltech physicist and former director of the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory), returned from...
Mexico's National Museum showed little interest in these oddments. The Museum was too busy spending money on such academic sure things as the arts of the Mayas, the Mixtecs and the Aztecs.
In an effort to transform what Norman Thomas called "academic wondering" into concrete action, the Law School Forum devoted its third meeting Friday evening in New Lecture Hall to a discussion of "Full Employment in a Free Society."
Vatican and other European clerics had also frowned deeply at the U.S. principle of separation of Church and State, which had been condemned by Leo XIII. But U.S. Catholics, uneasily aware that they were a minority, were early convinced that such a separation was their own strongest safeguard. Though Leo...