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These charges quickly spread a wrong impression of the athletic situation. Boston papers and the Associated Press grabbled the repot for stories on widespread dissatisfaction. These stories did much harm, for they pictured a chaotic athletic situation that would hardly be enticing for an athlete thinking of coming to Harvard. And, considering the vague basis for the charges of "dissatisfaction," the report cannot be used as the basis for practical policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrong Signal | 5/10/1951 | See Source »

...cosmos started from a chaotic distribution of stars that became organized billions of years ago, Shapley said. the varieties of shapes in the galaxies comprising the cosmes indicate a continuing process of evolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Explores Extent of Cosmos | 1/4/1951 | See Source »

...answer was to be found at the Pentagon, where top military men were anxious not to have too much mobilization too fast. Their argument went thus: it would be chaotic to throw millions of men into uniform without enough weapons to fight with or enough men to train them; to do so would also disturb the production of war goods by robbing defense plants of men before the plants were in shape to replace them. One of General George Catlett Marshall's convictions is that all-out mobilization should be ordered only at the certain prospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Buildup | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...above 100") and fished with a notable lack of success ("I sometimes think that fishes are easier to buy"). But he was a whiz when it came to streamlining his $18 million budget system, placing N.Y.U:'s seven libraries under unified control, or bringing order into the once chaotic graduate schools. Under him the $32 million N.Y.U.-Bellevue Hospital Medical Center and the new $3,000,000 Law Center got under way; enrollments boomed (fulltime students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grand Tour | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...amazing. Once more the enemy won bridgeheads across the Naktong, bigger than ever. Once more Taegu was threatened, not only frontally but by envelopment from the east. The northern front, from Taegu to the Japan Sea, sagged menacingly. On the east coast the South Koreans were thrown into chaotic disorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Was the War | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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