Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only is marching becoming increasingly difficult because of confusion of commands and overcrowding, but marching even in ideal conditions is also becoming of doubtful value. Since exercise groups are extremely variable, improvement since last spring is imperceptible, the same maneuvers being repeated month after month. Adding to this the fact that Stimson has come out against pre-induction training, stating that the Army can do in days what schools and colleges fail to do in months, the future and even the present benefits of marching are decidedly dubious...
...main objective of the compulsory athletic program is physical conditioning and the benefits of marching in gaining this effect are only fractional. And with student time becoming more and more of a problem, compact, half-hour exercise periods seem to be the ideal solution...
...Brahman, Ramakrishna knew the formalities of Hindu worship. Hinduism asks its devotees to look on God as the ideal father, the ideal mother, the ideal husband, the ideal son, or the ideal friend. To the initiate, each name ultimately leads to the Nameless, the form to the Formless, the word to the Silence. The gods gradually merge in the one God. But until that realization is achieved - and it may take a million reincarnations - a Hindu devotee cannot dissociate human factors from his worship. Therefore Hindu deities must be bathed, clothed, decked with ornaments. They must...
...Ideal factory formula, according to Burris-Meyer, must take into accomvt such factors as nationality, age, character of work, time of day. Foreign-born workers respond best to opera. Oldsters are best stimulated by such old standbys as Bicycle Built for Two, East Side, West Side. Youth prefers juke-box favorites. Most effective dose was found to be ten to 15 minutes of music each half hour, administered softly. To eliminate brassy passages, change of key, too ornate orchestrations, about 75% of the music on a "planned" factory program is specially arranged...
...stand as evidence of the new attitude toward other men which is slowly but inexorably spreading over the earth. The time when one hemisphere can indulge in an ignorant patronizing approach to the other half of the globe is fast waning. Willkie has felt the upsurge of this new ideal, and has recognized its strength. He is the first independent spokesman of free men, and of men who still must strive for freedom. The Asiatic and the African are stirring, while the myth of "Western Supremacy" slowly withers...