Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago Thomas Mann was appointed consultant in German literature for the Library of Congress. As a member of the staff. Librarian Archibald MacLeish asked Mann to make a speech before a small group in Washington, suggested that he discuss his great, four-volume, just-finished masterwork Joseph and His Brothers. (The final volume, Joseph the Provider, is slated for publication this fall.) Author Mann was at first "startled and disconcerted." Would it not, he asked, "seem terribly presumptuous, vain and egocentric" to talk of a mere novel in a time of world war? That would depend, he decided...
...commissions are laying plans for the immigration of millions of new settlers. Fifteen thousand workers have moved into the Amazon country. Engineers are exploring the water route from the Rio Negro to the Orinoco. Bulldozers have shoved a 1,671-mile road to Alaska, while the U.S. and Canada discuss joint development of the newly opened territory...
Besides taking care of routine business and committee reports the Steering Committee meets once a week to discuss matters of policy and to vote action on current issues such as the problems of India, China and North Africa, the Dies Committee, and the manpower problem. Their decisions on these matters have frequently been acknowledged by the department of government involed. They have also sponsored public meetings with noted guest speakers in attendance...
...step beyond England, beyond Europe. He did not show the outlook of a world citizen. After presenting concrete programs for national and continental reconstruction, he offered only hopes and prayers that England and the United States and Russia would consider the welfare of all nations. He did not discuss the sacrifices that the British Empire must make for world harmony; to the contrary, he insisted that England would regain her share of increased trade after the war, that her most important national problem was he maintenance of a high standard of living...
...conference was held in Chase Dining Hall and the Faculty Club, at the Business School and representatives from practically every activity of the Army Air Forces attended. The men met to exchange experiences, discuss new stat procedures and iron out their own difficulties...