Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> Retain in Congress power to rescind the Lend-Lease authority by concurrent resolution (simple majority) of both Houses. Meaning: not very much. As an academic argument against its effectiveness, Article 1, section 7 of the Constitution requires Presidential approval of all concurrent Congressional resolutions except to adjourn (customarily only those...
"In selecting the men for both the National and Nonresident awards, the Scholarship Committee plans to follow the methods that have proved successful in recent years. Attention will be given not only to the applicant's intellectual ability and promise but also to his personal qualities, character, and interest in...
With the outbreak of the war, President Conant publicly added political to his academic dislike of Germany. In a chapel talk on September 26, 1939, he said that a peace based on bitterness and hate would be the "final disaster" of civilization, but urged Americans to "recall their minds to...
The aims upon which the rival groups in the party had agreed were fourfold: to help keep the peace, to preserve New Deal social gains, to maintain academic freedom, and to exert pressure on Congressmen to adopt National Youth Administration scholarships.
Waiting to marry Miss Bishop in the beginning is fond, soft-spoken Sam Peters (William Gargan). He is still waiting at the end. Meanwhile, Miss Bishop almost forgets her academic career when she falls in love with a dashing young lawyer, Delbert Thompson (Donald Douglas). When he gets her man...