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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should have no strings of federal control. The aid should be in the form of 1) "selected" draft deferments; 2) priority on surplus commodities they can use for buildings and equipment; 3) direct grants based chiefly on losses of peacetime enrollment; 4) longterm, low-interest loans; 5) contracts for adult extension courses and research; 6) a federal scholarship fund...
...Bennington College's President Lewis Webster Jones: "In 1945-46 higher education will face the greatest crisis and greatest opportunity in the nation's history. . . . All indications are that the returning veterans will be most eager to ... work hard on a serious adult curriculum...
...that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less youthful shows...
...contemporary social history is confused with ostensibly obscene literature. In the case of "Strange Fruit," he added, "certainly the fact that it was an argument against racial prejudice has caused some people to disapprove of it. If we are not careful, Massachusetts is going to be increasingly difficult for adult, intelligent books...
...camp's orphan asylum has only 60 babies, who are attended by three Japanese nurses. The number of civilians killed by bombing and shelling was surprisingly low on Saipan, and many of the thousands of adult civilians who committed suicide at the battle's end killed their children also...