Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carrierman to the core, Commander Collett probed deeper, came up with a doctrine in flat opposition to the conviction of most high-ranking naval officers that there is still substantial need for the battleship. Of Midway, one of the decisive battles of world history, he wrote...
...imposition of a broad fiscal policy down to reducing the number of milk deliveries; it calls for action in any sudden civilian crisis (such as the Eastern fuel shortage), involves umpiring any major dispute between warring Government agencies. It touches U.S. economic life at its periphery and at its core, in a year when that life is rolling along at the fastest clip in history...
...rotten spot at the core of the dispute has been the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile, whose hard work has been overshadowed by a stubborn desire to pin down their country to the pre-war status quo. This attitude stands in sharp contrast to that of Norway's Prime Minister Johan Nygaardsvold, who last week in a message to his people outlined post-war reconstruction plans, and added: "The present Government does not do this with any thought that it is to retain power and look after the administration of Norway after the liberation...
...whose genius and labor transformed this institution from a relatively insignificant college to a leader in American education. President Lowell combined continued progress with the necessary stabilization and conservatism to place Harvard in the fore-front of the nation's universities. In re-emphasizing the college as the lifegiving core of the University, he raised academic standards, instituted the tutorial system and the teaching fellowships, the House plan and the integration of Freshmen. He instilled the mass of students with the will for scholastic achievement. His far-sighted financial planning protected the Harvard faculty from salary cuts during the great...
...need to give way to anxiety, certainly no ground whatever to despair. No one is going to commit this nation to a Machiavellian philosophy just because in a splendid achievement there has been some incidental moral confusion. . . . For the greater action is so sound, and so wholesome at its core that it will transcend the rest, and it will generate a moral energy which will sweep away, like a clean wind, the dusty leaves of sophistry...