Word: ideally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could buy-than ever before in their lives, or in history. To all the rest of the world, America seemed like a dream of plenty in the nightmare of worldwide need. To most Americans too, their prosperity was a dream, and an uneasy one. The gap between the U.S. ideal of peace & prosperity (as symbolized in wartime posters) and the reality with which the U.S. was surrounded, was sharp and deep. If this was peace & prosperity-and what else was it?-most Americans wanted something better, for themselves and for the world...
...lasting one and a half or two hours, and topped off by brandy, cigars and conversation. Malraux or Soustelle is often there, and nearly every top Government man from Ramadier down has been to Colombey at least once in the last eight months. Mme. de Gaulle is the ideal wife for a dedicated man: devoted and self-effacing. (His three grown children live elsewhere.) When the General is engrossed with one visitor, she chats with the others...
...could hardly bring joy to that Alumni officialdom faced with the money-raising chores for any War Memorial. The figure was a minimum of $3,000,000 exclusive of an equal endowment for operational expenses. No one doubted that it would require that sum easily to meet the mythical ideal envisaged in the sheaf of blueprints...
...girls feel they are entitled at least to a special row somewhere near the front of the room and think the "ideal solution would be to include Radcliffe in the alphabetical plan." To those who think this would complicate attendance-taking, they point out "that it is quite simple to distinguish between a Radcliffe and a Harvard student...
Between the preliminary and final editions of the current catalogue, the Anthropology Department changed its announcements from something approaching zero to something approaching a model for such laconic departments as Economics, Government, and Social Relations. Its descriptions do not challenge the ideal set up by the General Education courses, but space limitations bar universal application of such liberal accounts. Nevertheless, the few lines it devotes to each of its offerings, at a time when the advisory system frequently consists of a semi-annual signature, provide non-concentrators with some concept of what the course is about. This leads to wiser...