Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extremely difficult to assess the present student body sentiment on draft priorities. I hope the letter by Mr. Sawyer does not indicate a sentiment that because a man goes to one of the best schools in the county, he should be given a job behind the front lines. The only conceivable criterion for a allocating manpower, in the first place is to put trained or potential ability where it will do the most good. I am sure that Mr. Sawyer would agree to this principle. Yet, I am still uneasy about a possible common feeling that income, class, or academic...
With the Hungnam evacuation completed, tacticians looked back on the battle -the U.S. breakout from the Changjin trap, the fighting retreat to the sea, and the successful evacuation-to assess the showing made by the Chinese, who had looked so overwhelming in the first flush of their massive offensive. The assessment was that in northeast Korea, Mao's men had made a very poor showing indeed...
...majority of Americans I met socially I found to be childlike, equipped with rather more than the usual number of national and personal prejudices, inclined to assess all things-motor-cars and nations-with an uneasy blend of emotion and economics. I found that they tended to avoid standards based on intellect. They did not seem to be very good at thinking, largely, I suppose, through lack of practice...
...soon after the battle it was hardly possible to assess the full extent of what Russia had lost in her ill-starred gamble. But it was clear that she had lost a great deal. She had aroused the U.S. to an awareness of its weaknesses and a determination to build up strength. Russia had enabled the U.S. to prove to the whole world that it would shed the blood of its men on foreign soil to defend an ally. Russia had aroused the U.N.-to which its representative had made a degraded and fruitless return after seven months of boycott...
...Harvard teams in the next two years. Brad Quackenbush is the mainstay of the line at right end; he plays offense and defense and docs extremely well at both. Yale also has two fine backers-up in Charles Masters and Bob Spears (the offensive fallback); it was difficult to assess Yale's pass defense in view of Connecticut's exhibition, but the defense did seem somewhat vulnerable to short aerials. The right side of the line, led by Quackenbush, Walt Clemens, and Rufe Phillips, appeared stringer than the left...