Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others of the crew take notes on recalling details like yawning and table-tapping that can be seen around the conference table. When the experiment is over, the investigators draw up a "profile" of their guinea-pig meeting.
Between conferences with staff officers, intelligence briefing on the disastrous China situation and talks with Japanese politicians, General MacArthur occasionally finds time to receive a visitor from the States. On these occasions, MacArthur speaks with sweeping eloquence about the great U.S. experiment in Japan. The gist of his discourse:
It may be argued that in prewar Japan democratic forms were merely superimposed on ancient, rigid social patterns. In Japan today the U.S. is breaking up those social patterns. It is deliberately fostering a social revolution far bolder than anything colonial powers of the past have attempted in Asia. This...
"Cornell and Army will be tops in the East," stated Valpey, and he gave three reasons for his choice: 1) both teams have large numbers of returning lettermen; 2) their schedules allow for three "breather" games, contests in which the coaches may regroup and experiment; and 3) Cornell has tremendous...
Art outlined briefly the objectives of his 1949 spring practice, to wit: (1.) to make the acquaintance of and catalogue the new men (freshmen, jayvees, and transfer students) out for varsity foot-ball, and (2.) to experiment with the varsity players on new cycles of plays. "It was a good...