Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Industrial Mobilization" has as its content material compiled by arrangement with the Army Industrial College. This course covers the industrial and procurement problems of preparing the United States for a wartime emergency. Industries basic to defense effort are surveyed. The organization, functions, and wartime powers of the government, its agencies and military establishments are discussed. Consideration is given to the problems of military and civilian procurement. This course also deals with labor problems and the facilities for communication and transportation, as well as the subjects of war trade and economic warfare...
...second place, "the spiritual and ethical content has been exhausted from American education" with the abandonment of the Bible and the Classics as the core of the liberal curriculum. As a result, "our sons are cold to the agonies of the great tradition to which our culture belongs, indifferent to the fate of British democracy, though our national fate is inseparable from it, and are ready to call a policy which will leave our democracy to face totalitarian ruthlessness alone and isolated, a policy or 'realism...
...other words, as Mr. Cram puts it, "the spiritual and ethical content has been exhausted from American education," leaving the entire field to science. Misused by intellectuals, according to Mr. Adler, experimental scientific methods have been applied indiscriminately to non-scientific fields, and have led students to question or deny the existence of absolute ethical and moral values. The solution of both men is a complete revamping of our educational system...
...were now going through wooded mountains, which must appear wild and sad to one coming from a gorgeous fruitful country; attractive only for the inner content of their womb...
...sober New Statesman and Nation after the deal was announced. "It wants no abnormal quickness of wit to see the implications in this week's arrangement, and we must assume that both the Foreign Office and the State Department have seen them. For our part, we are content that it should be so. We are then brothers in arms, in war, as in peace, for a century to come. This is indeed a miracle of improvisation...