Word: deepening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father draft will depend mainly upon the training which the drafted father had given his family. Showing that the loss of the head of the family will result "in weak families" in "demoralization, irreligiosity, even criminality," Professor Sorokin also says that "for good families . . . the draft will intensify and deepen moral stamina, religiosity, sense of duty and devotion...
...includes Albert Einstein. Its 28 students do post-postgraduate research, have freely elected their teachers and studies. They are so expert in their fields that they are presumably aware of all the known facts involved. All that the Institute's teachers hope to do is to broaden and deepen their students' points of view toward their subjects by joint approaches from new angles. The students hear few formal lectures, take no examinations, get no degrees...
Washington, it appears, is not too worried about student morale. The wealth of rumors, official and otherwise, that sped about the College yesterday only served to deepen bewilderment. Administrators, Faculty, and students, all spent their time trying to find where they and the University stood relative to the manpower muddle. When the mass of rumors finally cleared away and it became apparent that the release of new information had again been postponed, only one reaction was possible: they've done it again...
...form of megalomania? It's presumptuousness at the least. Now that he has been revealed as a prime stirrer-upper of racial prejudice he ceases to be merely ridiculous-he becomes a menace to the very ideals of tolerance and justice which we are trying to strengthen and deepen. If we must have Junior in politics let him keep his bib clean...
...Roosevelt dream, the Seaway is not a Roosevelt idea. Joint U.S.-Canadian palavers to deepen the St. Lawrence began in 1895. Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover plumped for the Seaway with zero results. President Roosevelt, defeated when in 1934 he sent the Senate a Seaway Treaty (which needed a two-thirds vote), this time sent it to Congress as an "agreement" (needing only majority vote) and tagged it, like everything else in 1941, a measure for national defense...