Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Organization. The Allies, in espionage as in war, floundered along in traditional forms: spying was essentially military, to be practised by professionals. Unfortunately they had to cope with an enemy which, having revolutionized warfare, revolutionized espionage too. While France's time-honored Deuxième Bureau hopefully trained its second-string Mata Haris, and while Prime Ministers Chamberlain and Baldwin blandly ignored as "exaggerated" (substitute Hitler's "improbable") the catastrophic findings of Britain's brilliant 64, the Germans set in motion "the greatest espionage organization that had ever existed." Typically, Goebbels compiled a blacklist...
Attempting to cope with the rapidly expanding stock of books which have overflowed available shelf space, Widener and ten other Boston libraries are cooperating in the construction of a new library for the storage of little used books and periodicals...
...Author Chamberlin finds four reasons: 1) the spread of industrialism; 2) the growth of population due to the progress of science and medicine; 3) inequalities of wealth between classes and between nations; 4) and "most important," the inability of "collective human intelligence and good will" to cope with these problems. Hence the "infernal cycle"-wars and revolutions. "War breeds revolution as the natural response to its miseries and dislocations. Revolutionary regimes in turn make for new wars. And the wastage of human, cultural and material resources during this infernal cycle soon eats up the indispensable reserves of civilization...
First of the two courses of study, both of which begin January 26, 1942, will be a 12-month course training men for production work in defense factories which are experiencing a dire shortage of junior supervisors who can cope with urgent Government demands for increased production of vital materials...
Thus in case incendiary bombs fell on Harvard Hall during a lecture trapping students under fallen being and plaster and starting from the warden's first job would be to inform the report center. If the damage were not sertena, the College would cope with it alone. If outside help were needed, the head Harvard warden would notify the city authorities...