Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further unusual if not unique feature of the report is evident if one considers that the document represents a unanimity of opinion not based on compromise between divergent views. And when one adds the comment that the Committee was appointed from both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Education, such unanimity is recognized as not only exceptional but of high significance. To one who has listened for years with considerable dismay to the "educators and school men" belaboring the "professors" and vice versa, this unanimity seems like the dawn of a welcome day. I am obviously...
...among all the astringents put into requisition for the prevention of peace and order, none is so abhorrent as the censorial power. I may mention that the late message of the President of the United States was not regarded in all its parts as a safe document for Russian readers, and came to their hands scarred by the censor's knife...
Blood on the Sun (United Artists], a story about a Hoover-era American editor who learned of Baron Tanaka's plan for world conquest and tried to get the document out of Japan, is mainly apocryphal. But as melodrama it is as hard, tidy and enjoyable as the work of its star James Cagney, the dean of the sort of movie in which action and good sense collaborate instead of colliding...
This week the San Francisco conference put the last dots on a charter written for a world of power, tempered by a little reason. It was a document produced by and designed for great concentrations of force, somewhat restrained by a great distrust of force...
...with its usual thoroughness, presented the railroads with a massive document that traced the history of the rate battle back to 1887. In effect, the ICC ruled that wherever manufacturers are situated - in the South, West, or East - at the same distance from a given point, they would each pay the same rate. This cracked at one blow the freight rate structure, which has influenced the economic distribution of industries, and set up a new structure which may make some of the existing distribution uneconomic...