Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to TIME for an unbiased account of the position of Dartmouth's President Hopkins re proportionate selection for college admissions. Though TIME did not directly damn the jingoism whose misrepresentations produced the controversy, TIME'S summary could lead any college man - student, alumnus, or administrator-only into agreement with President Hopkins and the principles of Dartmouth's system...
...general, by the Army Board's account, liaison in Washington between the War, Navy and State Department heads and the two chiefs of the Army & Navy was close. There were constant huddles and exchanges of information. It was mostly on the second level of bureaucracy. i.e., Army & Navy top levels, that orders got confused and lost...
...from the winter of 1942 to the winter of 1944, they never saw an enemy plane or tank, never ducked an angry bullet. But their struggle to do an essential job under harrowing conditions is one of the epics of the war, and Joel Sayre's witty, comprehensive account (which first appeared in the New Yorker) is one of the most readable of war correspondents' books...
...that fat Francisco Franco's clock is close to striking twelve, on the nose of the news comes Isabel de Palencia's account of the men & women who ran away to fight another day for freedom. Smouldering Freedom, is partly an updating of her own earlier autobiography (I Must Have Liberty), partly a picture of Mexico's "Pilgrim Spain" of Republican exiles...
...Vansittart [TiME, July 16] conveniently "forgets" to take into account the fact that the "Germans" of whom Velleius Paterculus wrote were the people who lived in northern Europe in the land which then included not only present-day Germany but also the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, northeastern France, Austria and part of Czechoslovakia. These same "Germans" make up the Saxon element of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and it seems to me that the English must be not a little proud of their drop of Saxon blood since they constantly refer to themselves as "Anglo-Saxons...