Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This report was made ... to furnish a factual and critical digest of all available literature on the subject. Competent authorities agreed that this objective was well and faithfully...
...Dean Hanford's view according to his 1942 report, the object of a liberal arts education is to "furnish students with an idea of the accumulated culture and experience of the human race, show them the continuity of the present with the past, and provide them with some understanding of the complicated world in which they live...
...ultimate purpose, he says, is "to free the minds of its students from ignorance and prejudice, to provide them with a set of values and standards, and to furnish them with the tools which will enable them to form intelligent opinions, judge wisely, and make sagacious decisions...
Some pre-Hitler films sought out some tenable pattern for existence. Some escaped into serenely playful romantic comedies. Others advised submission and Christlike love (Dostoevsky was very popular in middle-class Germany). Still others-which were to furnish the Nazis with a theme-"combined passions and precipices," and celebrated the heroic but adolescent cult of mountain climbing...
...secret that they were privately counting on the Cabinet to furnish some of their best bets. One was Princeton-bred, Wall Street-trained Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who some day might be Secretary of National Defense. He was geographically perfect, ideologically sound, would add tone to the ticket. His big drawback was that he had never even run for dogcatcher...