Word: cope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once more displaying a positive genius for misinterpretation, Capitol Hill reactionaries have perverted serious discussion on absenteeism into another anti-labor crusade. Entangled in inconsistencies, Congress first kills an appropriation for the formation of a committee to cope with absenteeism problems, and then proceeds to assail it blindly as the sabotage of the treacherous, unamerican working man. The Rickenbacker crowd charges that unions are promoting it, Representative Johnson threatens labor with his "work or fight" bill, but as yet nothing constructive has been accomplished towards solving a problem which is rupturing the war effort. The solution lies in cooperation...
Included in the group were Oliver Cope '23, assistant professor of surgery, to replace Edward D. Churchill '02, John Homans Professor of surgery, Donald L. Augustine, associate professor of comparative pathology and tropical medicine, a new appointment, George W. Thorn, associate professor of the theory and practice of physic, to replace Walter Bauer, associate professor of medicine, and Frederick J. Stare, assistant professor of nutrition, a new appointment...
...Varsity seemed absolutely unable to cope with Yale's man-to-man defense. After bringing the ball up, the guards would lose the ball time and again, while waiting in vain for somebody to cut for the hoop. Yale's play was equally bad; against the Crimson man-to-man, the Elis had little to offer in the way of an offense, but their shots were dropping now and then, and Harvard was shooting hardly...
University fire-fighters displayed their ability to cope with incendiaries in an "incident" atop the House squash courts. At a given signal, little men climbed nimbly up hastily erected ladders and began dousing the roof, each other, and, theoretically, the conflagration with streams of water from their fire hoses. With Chief Air Raid Warden Aldrich Durant looking on, the valiant blaze-battlers finished their task, and like the Arab of old, silently stole away...
General purpose of the school is to help the Army cope with the problem of mental illness (TIME, Jan. 4), the chief reason for Army medical discharges. Specific purpose of the school is to adapt civilian neuropsychiatrists to military practice by 1) brushing up those who are predominantly neurologists on psychiatry, and vice versa; 2) teaching the doctors how to keep their heads above Army paper work; 3) indoctrinating the men with the Army's attitude toward all patients-get them back on active duty or discharge them...