Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feared by many people that the tradition of the liberal arts college will be extinguished by the impact of the technological demands of war. The danger is real and we do well to recognize it." They were the words written by James Bryant Conant last January. They were the first indication that Harvard was in for a major change. Not an internal change to speed up graduation or, streamline courses. But a structural change; an overhauling of rules, requirements, and curriculum. This change has not yet come. But before it does, the officers of the University must decided this question...
...Picturing a young nation's groping progress toward musical maturity, the story is by turns comic, valiant, humiliating, prideful. No scholarly treatise, not even an error-free* record, the book is none the less an engrossing, vivid history (as Mark Sullivan might tell it) of music's impact on the U.S. people...
Delegates from as far away as Cleveland and Chicago will attend the meetings, and will discuss, in a round-table fashion, the best methods of protecting all types of art from damage. Paintings on canvas, for example, can be torn to shreds by the impact of the force of a high-explosive bomb, and smoke, extreme heat or cold, fumes, and fire are very harmful to pictures, as well as other forms...
...been rejected by death is easily tempted to take up the pen.'' Such is Hillary's avowed reason for writing down at white heat this compact, moving journal. He has, however, a stronger reason, which gives his chapters their impact...
...Canadian liner Lady Hawkins skittered across a slick, black ocean. Scarcely 100 yards away a U-boat reared up out of the sea for the brief space of 60 seconds. The raider fingered the Lady coldly with a pair of searchlights. Then the Lady Hawkins shuddered under the impact of a torpedo. Her forward mast crashed. Over on her side careened the 7,988-ton liner. Passengers and crew tumbled into the sea. A second torpedo exploded in the Lady Hawkins' engine room and her career ended...