Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Other fleeting impressions: the formality of relationship between ranks; inferior administrative organization as compared to ours; singing while drilling; greater emphasis on automatic fire in the infantry; wearing of medals instead of ribbons; absence of signs indicating the particular units stationed in the vicinity, which are very conspicuous with us...
Economically, said the communiqué, "primary emphasis shall be given to the development of agriculture and peaceful domestic industries." The fact that agriculture was placed first did not mean that Germany was to be completely de-industrialized. Perhaps the most significant point in the Potsdam communiqué was its provision...
"No serious educator can afford to neglect this study. Many educators may disagree with the conclusions of the Committee, but no one can find fault with their setting of the problems of education. I personally do not like their emphasis upon "tradition." If one chooses to be etymological and to...
Boston Herald, July 24: "The snap reaction to the report of the Harvard Committee . . . is that this completes a cycle. We had out long period of educational rigidity and standardized curricula. Then came the free elective system as perfected by President Eliot. And now we are back again to the...
When war came to the Pacific in 1941, Halsey, a vice admiral and commander of aircraft carriers, Pacific Fleet, was running task, forces of big ships as though they were destroyer divisions: the emphasis was on speed and maneuver. But after his first hell-for-leather raids on the Jap...