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...tendency in the future should be to prolong the courses of instruction at the colleges . . . and to equip our young officers with that special technical professional knowledge which soldiers have a right to expect from those who can give them orders if necessary to go to their deaths. . . . Professional attainment, based upon prolonged study . . . are the vital needs of the commanders of the future armies, and the secret of future victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Secret of Victory | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...equip men for their place in a world of scientific as well as political complexities, President Conant seeks to admit men, to advanced study especially but to the rest of the University as well, by assessing "the quality of mind, not the quantity of learning...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgle, | Title: 2600 Registration Now Predicted | 2/5/1946 | See Source »

They had fled from their Baltic homeland after it was taken over by Russia, refused to go back to their Communist-dominated country. It had taken virtually all their money to buy the Erma's 36-ft. hull, to install an old marine engine, and equip her with sails and stores. The Erma was small but she was seaworthy. And the leader of the expedition, tough, blue-eyed Harri Pahlberg, was a master mariner. So was the first mate, leathery Arvid Kuun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: In the Mayflower's Wake | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

This blend of barbarism and benevolence had its inevitable effect on the Crown Prince. He grew into a meek, friendly youth, given to expressing any inward effervescence by racing along the streets of Teheran in fast cars. The better to equip him for his royal duties, the Shah gave the boy five years of European schooling. The Shah had learned to read & write Persian only after becoming Minister of War; the Crown Prince became proficient in French, English and European manners in one of the most expensive private schools in Switzerland. But Mohamed Reza was not allowed to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Rhythm Recurs | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Last week Moscow's Izvestia lifted the recent blackout on Dr. Kapitza, said, that he had helped equip a great new laboratory on Mt. Alagoz, a remote eminence in remote Soviet Armenia. Kapitza's announced activity: research in stratospheric cosmic rays, a roundabout approach to the harnessing of atomic energy. U.S. scientists, pondering the sparse accounts from Moscow, were willing to swear that there was nothing roundabout in Dr. Kapitza's other atomic doings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOMIC AGE: Russian Cosmos | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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