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...Germans, it now appears, are not likely to conquer the physical U.S. But they conquered the minds of U.S. educators long ago. The German doctrines of scientific pedagogy and of the squirrelish accumulation of facts (Ph.D.) are still the U.S. fashion. Anyone curious to know what is wrong with U.S. education would do well to examine briefly a new book titled A Basic Vocabulary of Elementary School Children (Macmillan...
...would run the Pacific War from now on was opened wide last week. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, midway in the task of liberating the Philippines, had not even waited for the mopping-up to begin before he made a bold bid for fresh fields to conquer: "Our motto becomes 'On to Tokyo.' We are ready in this veteran and proven command when called upon...
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...Bellboys snapped back Wednesday evening to conquer an outclassed Adams five, 30 to 8. Lowell rolled up 20 quick points in the first period before the Gold Coasters could score, Shaw Livermore accounting for Adams' four baskets...
...later, in a soberer mood, thoughtful citizens looked beyond those scapegoats. Pearl Harbor was no isolated event: it was the culmination of a foreign policy which had resulted in war. The U.S., to gain time for an inevitable war with Japan-inevitable unless Japan was to be allowed to conquer Asia-had appeased Japan by selling her oil and scrap iron, and then had begun to squeeze Japan by gradually cutting off these supplies...