Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Dr. Deutsch: "Woman's intellectuality is to a large extent paid for by the loss of valuable feminine qualities. . . . Everything relating to exploration and cognition, all the forms and kinds of human cultural aspiration that require a strictly objective approach, are with few exceptions the domain of the masculine intellect, or man's spiritual power, against which women can rarely compete. . . . The intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking...
...until tea time, he pores over documents, writes longhand memos and orders on war, peace, empire. By 5:30, the only Dominion Prime Minister in Britain's War Cabinet is ready for a conference with Winston Churchill and the little group of high & mighty Britons who run the domain on which the sun never sets...
...Americans in the Pacific know. But this one gave promise of bigger things ahead. For one thing, it meant that the U.S. fleet in the Pacific could reinforce the British fleet in the Indian Ocean. For another, it meant that even in that distant section of his domain the enemy could look for more carrier strikes, would even have to worry about the possibility of amphibious assaults...
...present his command maintains liaison with partisan fighters in Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia; his domain runs as far north in Italy as any Allied infantryman contrives to plant his heavy boots and stay...
...Cherry Point, they are clerks and stenographers in the post administration building. They inspect and pack parachutes at the loft, teach gunnery to the men, operate Link trainers, help in the control tower. The photography department is now exclusively a woman's domain...