Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberal education" is a fighting phrase nowadays. "In the current discussions between the Armed Forces and the educators on the conversion of colleges to the war effort we have a vague picture of a group of horn-rimmed but humane deans in a gallant losing struggle against a tight-fisted clique of electronicists. It might help to clarify this picture, and assist both sides, if we had a more definite idea of what liberal education was all about, and what were the values for which it stands...
When the Rising Sun came up over the Burma Road, most Americans visualized an eclipse of China's war effort. The main reason why his country's star continued to rise in spite of the stoppage of the flow of supplies, Pu explains, is that the Chinese Industrial Cooperative, inaugurated in Hankow in 1933 with a government grant of $5,000,000, served the three-fold purpose of maintaining army morale, stimulating civilian morale among millions of harassed refugees from occupied Chins, and mobilizing manpower, capital, and natural resources...
...effort to show "what the prewar Harvard was like", he has been photographed waiting outside the Freshman Dean's Office to "see about the examination he had flunked," carrying University chairs to his room in Lowell House at the beginning of his Sophomore year, sleeping in the House library, and drinking tea with the Bell-boy's Housemaster, Elliot Perkins...
This Council has led a unique but successful existence, with service calls, irregular elections, and heavily accelerated programs hindering its traditional flow of constructive effort. It is therefore disappointing that this final chapter end unfinished. But the problem of disposing of student furniture for the duration has not been solved, and hopes for a practical answer have been left dangling. Time is running out too rapidly to delay a decision. If neither the University not the Council can prove helpful, the undergraduates ought at least be informed promptly and be enabled to make other plans...
...blind are finding increasing opportunities in the war effort: >Blind, 23-year-old Byron H. Webb of Chicago was graduated from De Paul University last month, wanted to fight the Axis somehow. He was told of various relatively nonessential jobs he could do. Dissatisfied, he thought hard, sold himself to the Signal Corps. His job: teaching Signal Corps men to make emergency radio repairs in the dark. >Toledo Scale Co. has a new instrument, invented by blind Evelyn Watson of Buffalo, which permits blind people to weigh by ear such things as powder for fuses, mica for radio installations, buttons...