Word: discoverable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The book tells how Britons gradually came to know the U.S. serviceman, and to discover the "likeness between G.I. Joe and Tommy Atkins . . . Like his British colleague, the American soldier was an amateur, and reared to mistrust the posturings of professional militarists ... A civilian at heart, he drove his tank...
But in cities where the Clubs are lukewarm toward recruitment, and especially in areas where there are no Harvard Clubs, this ideal system deteriorates badly. Instead of receiving a list of pre-tested prospects from Club committeemen, undergraduates soon discover that they are the recruiting. In their short vacation time...
The students were not the only ones who gained from these special events. Often, the government official would bare his most difficult problems to the seminar, in the hope that some bright young man could apply some theory and come up with an answer he had been too harried to...
According to Ready, the operation in which a bookseller is "warned" works something like this: after a complaint from a group of private citizens has been received by the police, an officer, usually a plain clothes man, will visit the bookstores carrying the supposedly obscene piece. The officer will call...
A retiring Victorian bachelor named William Harnett was probably the best of all U.S. still-life painters. His After the Hunt is the public favorite at San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Harnett painted it for the Paris Salon of 1885, "to discover whether or...