Word: actually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change, said Dean Hanford, has been approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in order "to adjust the physical training program more closely to actual practice and conditions as they exist today." At the time the present system was adopted, the Faculty pointed out, the great bulk of students were going immediately into the armed forces; most of the men now going into the services from Harvard College are members of the Freshman and Sophomore classes...
...Says England's Dr. H. Chapman Pincher: "Japanese fertility . . . is certainly much higher than that of Britain or the U.S., but lower than that of most Asiatic countries. By nature, the Japanese are very active breeders, and compared with the number of chances given annually for conception, their actual conception rate is probably low. I believe that if the Japanese dropped the hot bath habit their birth rate would be higher still...
...spots in Europe where trouble between allies brewed. Trieste for a time was closest to actual battle. After Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander issued a blistering statement denouncing Marshal Tito's occupation of the city, New Zealand troops followed the Yugoslav example and went about the streets with automatic rifles. North of Trieste Tito withdrew some troops to the defensible line of the Isonzo river (see map). The Yugoslavs moved their main headquarters back from Trieste, but showed no sign of relaxing their grip on the city. Lest it be cut off in case of fighting...
...small and middle-sized powers made a little progress-a very little-in their efforts to win a larger share of authority in the forthcoming world organization. But every move to spread the power among all the member nations was offset by a move to limit its actual use by or against any nation, big or small. At the showdowns, the U.S. was as sensitive...
...seemed doomed to. It is Director Minnelli who gives a passage like the silent breakfast scene its radiance. He has used most of his bit players and extras and crowds and streets so well that time & again you wonder whether some swarming, multitudinously human scenes were made in the actual city, with only a few of the actors aware of concealed cameras...