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...tremendous demand for personnel trained in electronics has impelled those charged with the program to turn to the ranks of women engineers for aid. This group, though small, has shown definite promise and a warning is given the men in the course that they will have to exert themselves to the fullest extent of their capabilities to keep alive the myth of male supremacy in scientific pursuits...
Many a Friend could and did argue that Indiana Yearly Meeting had bravely faced the modern world with a modern realism, that the two resolutions simply put on record views which Friends have long been privately laboring with. The resolutions would enable Friends to exert a force in the postwar world commensurate with their Christian purpose...
...means all Friends agreed. Some Quakers felt an urgent need to dwell deep upon the teachings of George Fox and other weighty Friends. Some feared that the more Quakers became a force in the world the less they would exert that power which few Quakers would care to express in words, but of which Robert Barclay once wrote: "When I came into the silent assemblies of God's people, I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it, I found the evil weakening in me, and the good raised...
...priest of the Hongwanji sect - in charge of the library, observer of prisoners' behavior and recommender of shortened sentences. These priests also conduct Sunday services in which they sing hymns to tunes taken from the English hymnal, words altered to fit Buddhist doctrine ("Buddha loves me"). The priests exert a powerful influence and beatings never occur until after they have gone for the night...
...overall importance in both plans is the setting up of a forum (like the New York Federal Reserve under Strong and Harrison) where experienced men can exert their influence for sanity in financial affairs. Of like importance is the substitution of a multilateral agreement, a set of rules for voluntary participants to observe, in place of bilateral deals that can only fan destructive competition. Both plans write a text based on desperate rearguard campaigns of the '20s and '30s. They recognize the experience leading to the minimal Tripartite Agreement of 1936: that some collaboration, any collaboration, in international...