Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest problem today is to prevent the mass hysteria that may possibly envelop us if certain of our leaders continue to keep pushing us seemingly ever closer to conflict...
Strategically, however, the Allies lost a chance to win bases from which they could carry the war to Germany's heart. And in surrendering those bases to Germany they exposed the north of the British Isles to closer, fiercer attack...
Battle fleets steaming eastward in the Mediterranean last week (see p. 30) put fresh fear in the hearts of the unhappy people who live in Southeast Europe. By land, too, danger came closer to those frightened neutral nations that lie in the path of eastward-looking conquerors. Troops stood ready for action a stone's throw from their frontiers; spies and quislings swarmed in their midst; while pressure politicians increased their demands for concessions and still more concessions. Signs of trouble...
...Committee recommends that the administration and supervision of the tutorial system be more systematically organized for the whole College and within the departments. More frequent meetings of the Tutorial Chairmen as a group and closer contact with the Administration, tutorial lunches or meetings in those departments which do not already have them, were means suggested by the tutors. The means of attaining the desired systematic organization must be worked out by the Administration together with the departments...
...Union's remedies are of two kinds: those designed to provided better organization, and those aimed at securing better and more experienced tutors. Better organization is fairly simple. Specifically, it means frequent meetings of departmental tutorial staffs, and closer contact between departments and between departments and Houses. Better personnel is a harder row to hoe. Basing its recommendations on the Report of the committee of Eight, the Union urges more systematic canvassing of prospective tutors, the retention of good tutors for from seven to twelve years. Timidly, it suggests that excellence in tutoring be weighted more heavily than at present...