Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raise a Chinese Wall in a twentieth century world. If we are willing to alienate ourselves from the rest of the world, if we are willing to bear the double burden of the world's enmity and an enormous armament program--such a policy might purchase us a brief period of a precarious armed neutrality. Inexorably, however, World War III would come--and this time the United States would be alone against those very forces that such a policy of selfish nationalism would foster. Callously self-seeking, such a "realistic" policy would fall far short of reality. We are part...
...from the Department of State: GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR INVITATION. REGRET EXCEEDINGLY THAT PRIOR COMMITMENTS COVERING MY BRIEF STAY IN BOSTON MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO ACCEPT. SUMNER WELLES, ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE...
...Palmer setting the pace, the Tigers ran the count to 21-13 at half time. A foul by Dean Hennessey and a layup by Hugh Hyde in the last minute of the half, helped close the gap. Frank Bixler, who led the Harvard scoring with 10 points, started a brief Crimson rally in the second half after the Tigers had widened their advantage to 26-14. Bixler sandwiched three layup shots between a pair of fouls by Hyde and Dan Shields, but Palmer and his mates applied the pressure once again...
...Failing to begin such organized study and discussion now, there is the danger that divergent views and policies may become crystallized, to the detriment of the common war effort, and to the detriment of efforts to bring about a peace that will be more than a brief and uneasy interlude...
Sidney B. Fay, professor of History, Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Leo Gross, authority on history, will give brief talks which will be followed by a general discussion, covering all the major problems that have arisen before or since the war began...