Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Powder Kegs & Lollipops. No worthwhile estimate of the chances of war can be made (as the Frenchman made his) on the basis of an isolated issue, whether it be Hitler's drive for Poland or Stalin's for Berlin. Great nations are not powder kegs exploding into war at the drop of a carelessly tossed diplomatic démarche. Nor are they children, to be pacified by a conciliatory lollipop. Situations ripe for war find the specific issues (sometimes quite trivial ones, like Sarajevo) that start the shooting. Situations not ripe for war ignore specific issues (sometimes very...
Many editorials never come up before policy meetings. If an editorial is printed backing a drive for blood donors, don't think it is the product of furious discussions. If five hundred students are given sleeping bags and told to live in the Common when the Houses are three-quarters empty, there is no meeting. Just a swift but thorough investigation, and a thundering editorial...
film series, a registration drive and a membership drive within the College walls. Radio debates on WHRV and elsewhere and joint meetings with the newly-chartered Radcliffe SDA round out the schedule...
...annual drive for membership was on yesterday at registration, and Republicans, Democrats, and Wallaceites all reported favorable results, although returns are still unofficial and far from complete. HYRC and HLU both claim to have more than compensated for losses by graduation last year, while the Wallace group has signed up 92 freshmen with an almost equal number of upperclassmen expressing interest
...Eastwood: "Our earnings on meat last year were at the rate of about one-fifth of a cent a pound. Obviously a profit of one-fifth cent cannot be responsible for the increase which has taken place in meat prices since before the war." Nevertheless, the suit helped drive packing shares on the New York Stock Exchange to their year...