Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gasoline was now rationed in the 17 eastern States. The blow came with a flat, crunching impact that smashed the breath out of 8,500,000 people to whom the automobile had been the most luxurious of all necessities. Uneasily they had seen the blow coming. Now, when it came, some U.S. citizens took it badly. Many others, who would feel the pinch worse, took it in patriotic silence...
...released last night, is particularly timely, then, since it deals primarily with just these problems of preserving a liberal education in war-time, by means of improved and integrated tutorial, and changes in concentration requirements. The report deserves careful consideration and study, not as an attempt to lessen the impact of the conflict, but as the core of the University's contribution to the war effort, and to education after...
Behind the curtain of secrecy great discoveries are piling up. They will burst upon the post-war world with an incalculable impact. Is war's diversion and stimulus of research for better or worse? Scientists disagree. "If the war lasts for two more years," said a University of California scientist, "much of the progress in the various fields of research will be the equivalent of ten years of peacetime work...
KUIBYSHEV--Reinforced Red armies have absorbed successfully the first impact of Germany's spring offensive, repulsing mechanized attacks along the entire front, including an assault by 100 tanks in the Crimson, the strongest since the battle for Moscow, Russia reported tonight...
Even the mediums of "polite education" which Harvard has so long been sheltering from the assaults of the world have felt the impact of war. Like their more material counterparts, the departments of concentration in the extreme stratum of the liberal arts have been forced to reform their position in higher education...