Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bona fide military secrets are accepted, and rightly so, in periods of war or crisis, but the army-navy attitude goes beyond this in an unwarranted fashion. Reporters are discouraged from printing unsavory material by the threat of blacklist--being refused access to government releases or press conferences. In this manner a quietus is put on reports of waste and inefficiency in the building of our national defense, so that optimistic generalities prevail. The absurd "voluntary censorship" on the presence of British warships in New York and San Francisco harbors was an attempt to keep ammunition from the isolationists. Coming...
...during the last six months increasing complaints have come from Regular officers that the seniority principle is being kicked around in most unmilitary fashion. Chief beef: in many instances a Regular finds himself outranked by a reservist who is far & away junior...
...Scientists do not try to visualize the atom; its mechanics are too complex, too alien to the familiar things of life. Laymen can visualize it after a fashion by imagining a heavy nucleus composed of protons and neutrons clumped together sur rounded by a sort of throbbing mist of electrons...
...told in three stories, centuries apart, linked in mystical fashion by a small article of jewelry, a black, glittering chain which was "forged in the fires of human selfishness." This chain is a symbol likewise...
...equivalent at Tiger town is the Whig-Cliosophic Society, which has some three hundred members, sends speakers out to address clubs and conventions, and runs the Princeton Senate. The entire organization meets once a month at the Senate to discuss issues of country-wide importance, after the fashion of the national debating chamber of the same name. Even taking into account Princeton's conservatism, the absence of pugnacious minority groups there must be explained in part by the atmosphere of free debate. Meanwhile in Cambridge the war of propaganda and counter - propaganda rolls over the Yard leaving broken posters, crumpled...