Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-five years ago, in the magazine Foreign Affairs (see PRESS), the late Elihu Root, Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of State, looked behind and ahead and made some observations on history. "There is a general conviction," he wrote, "that there has been something wrong about the conduct of diplomacy under which peoples have so often found themselves embarked in war without intending...
...over, the world looked like a "community of nations" to Elihu Root, and from that fact he took cautious hope. But even then hope had an acid taste: "The [world] community has grown just as communities of natural persons grow. . . . The neighbors generally must govern their conduct by the accepted standards or the community will break...
...seem easily surmountable in view of the great influx of cars. More important, however, is a University objection that the project would be a ridiculous investment if, as last year, students refused to use the area. Since the Student Council is investigating the situation, it might be wise to conduct another poll and determine how many students would find such an area practical. It can hardly be expected that Harvard University will go as far as Yale in tearing down buildings to provide space for cars, but the very magnitude of the parking problem demands official...
President Conant will make a second appearance Tuesday morning to conduct the daily prayers at Memorial Church...
...musical adviser" for 1948. In a guest appearance last season, Ormandy got more out of the orchestra than anyone else was able to. Ormandy will still keep his winter job with the Philadelphia Orchestra (where he had also succeeded Stokowski), but his new contract calls for him to conduct at least 16 of the Bowl's 1948 summer concerts...