Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, and especially since World War II, military men have sternly urged the nation to adopt universal military training. Six months ago a presidential commission of nine civilians began a study of the subject. This week they made their report. Their reluctant but unanimous conclusion, arrived at in a kind of solemn horror: the Army is right; universal training is a matter of "urgent military necessity...
NACA says that its quiet prop is more efficient than faster, noisy propellers. (The plane equipped with it flew 5 m.p.h. faster.) NACA hopes that airplane manufacturers will adopt the design, and thus make small airfields acceptable in nicer and fussier neighborhoods. It even hints darkly of legislation making the quiet prop mandatory...
...country against Communist opposition. Inside Ramadier's own Socialist Party, a large faction, still bitterly opposed to the break with the Communists, might force Ramadier's resignation. Worried Frenchmen saw two alternatives: 1) the Communists would triumphantly return to the Government, stronger than ever; 2) they would adopt a policy of increasingly violent opposition, precipitating strikes, strife and bloodshed...
Foolish Questions. "Every single generalization respecting mathematical physics which I was taught [at Trinity College, Cambridge]," he notes, "has now been abandoned. . . ." But Whitehead, who has seen science and philosophy adopt and then discard one "certainty" after another, remains undismayed: "The history of thought is largely concerned with the records of clear-headed men insisting that they at last have discovered some clear, adequately expressed, indubitable truths." Whitehead considers "inconsistent truths [as] seedbeds of suggestiveness," thinks (with his philosophical parent Plato) that "knowledge is a process," and that "ancient science stopped with Archimedes [because] people stopped asking foolish questions...
...concert attractions which otherwise would never venture into the grass-roots. Commission II (Student Publications and Student Government) will, in a sense, trail-blaze for NSO itself when it seeks to formulate ways for rendering student governments functional rather than merely honorifle. Commission III (Educational Opportunities and Discrimination) might adopt the suggestion for a national employment counseling service to beat the "closed shop" dilemma confronting many men and women of minority race or religion in professional and other fields. Commission IV (Educational Standards and Curricula) should attempt to gain united student support for increased faculty salaries. Commission V (International Student...