Word: cushman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...AMERICA which is engaged in one of the greatest and most vital debates in its national history--the outcome of which may vitally affect the course of that national history--Messrs. MacLiesh and Cushman have presented a most timely book. For an American public which thirsts for facts upon which to make its decisions, the authors have dug a well deep with facts. As a mere catalogue of up-to-date military statistics, geographical truths and raw material accounting, The Strategy of the Americas is no more open to a critical review than a telephone directory; but in its more...
Heads will willingly nod when MacLiesh and Cushman rattle off their figures on the raw material self-sufficiency of the Western Hemisphere, (granting their optimistic stock-piling, substitute-developing, and full domestic exploitation assumptions); they will nod a little more dubiously when the authors discuss U. S. defense bases and army-navy-air power; they may still be nodding when the argument is persuasively made for at least the short-run military impenetrability of the Western Hemisphere. But as the authors draw steadily away from the safe ground of indisputable fact and into the whirlpool of opinion, this head...
Tall, husky Zoologist Robert Cushman Murphy gets mad when he considers what human rapacity has done and is still doing to whales. Though he is officially Curator of Oceanic Birds at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Murphy is an expert on whales & whaling. He fumes with invectives like "unalleviated carnage" and "butchered and rendered with horrible dispatch...
...Heard Bishop Ralph Spaulding Cushman of St. Paul, Minn., president of the Anti-Saloon League, announce that a war chest of $1,500,000 would be raised to "attack the liquor interests with renewed energy." The Board of Temperance noted with alarm the increasing consumption of wine: "Wherever wine has gotten a stranglehold, there is little hope for early release. ... It will surely destroy the French people...
...result of a three week competition, five undergraduates have been added to the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House, Chairman Harry Newman, Jr. '42 announced yesterday. They are Richard Coombs '42, Robert Cushman '43, Robert Davis '42, Robert Flint '43, and Newbold London...