Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution of the nation's shortage of trained man power, the country should adopt a new policy based on the selection of promising high school graduates to be sent to college at government expense for combined military and academic training, President Conant urged in his annual report to the Board of Overseers released Wednesday...
...intelligent contributions to camouflage will come from the concerted action of several branches of the University, but why should the correllation be under the obviously unqualified leadership of the Fogg? Are we to believe that they will trim their long hari, shelve their academicism and adopt the necessary experimental attitude? The exact bearing of the "color-value theory" on camouflage is almost as obscure as the motives behind the Fogg's sudden announcement. It is imperative that such a vital and, prior to Pearl Harbor; such a widely disparaged subject be put under competent direction if it is to make...
...feudal order with '"Jewish scapegoats, Slavic pariahs and Negro 'subhumans' . . . at the bottom" and "a militant caste of Samurai and Teutonic Knights ... at the top for all to obey?" Or (a doctrinaire never offers more than two choices) shall "America and the British democracies adopt a common currency and a common citizenship; create a common army, navy and air force under common command; and establish a provisional federal government with limited but adequate powers to provide for the common defense and the general welfare...
...range goals, implicit in the Administration's experimental attitude. It is true that he admits "the developmental implications of the various measures fly off at tangents--often in contradiction to one another." But he tends to pass off this defect a little too lightly. He agrees that "we must adopt a more explicit plan," but he doesn't consider the possible conflicts between his deflation of ideals and the development of long-range objectives...
...these things and what's more, it doesn't seem to think it has to. By failing to give a frank picture of the situation, they are undermining the whole idea of democratic reason and betraying the intelligence of the people. Unless we quit this muddy thinking and adopt a clear-cut sensible program we will continue to dissipate our strength and our ideal...