Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft strategy has met with a large measure of success. But Cabot Lodge is elaborately calm. "There's plenty of time," he says. "To me, it isn't late...
Hitting a tank with a 16-in. shell from a battleship's main battery is something like potting a mouse with an elephant gun. It isn't often done-but when it is, there isn't much left of the mouse...
Complaints and criticisms range from "It's a complete waste of time" to "One hour a week isn't enough to get anything concrete from the course...
...beyond all anticipations." The fifth month brought a crisis; the Digest couldn't pay the printer, and Wallace was plunged in gloom. At first Lila was crushed by these moods, which would "just descend on him like a black cloud. It was all new to me-it just isn't in my nature to worry. Then I realized he liked to worry, so I started kidding him out of it." Another flood of subscriptions ended the crisis...
...indeed, should Dewey and Hutchins be opposed to each other? Isn't 'learning by doing' part of any good educational process? Isn't it the mark of the well-educated man, even of the well-educated 'doer,' that he have more than a nodding acquaintance with at least some of the 'great books'? Learning, it has always seemed to us, is a double process; it proceeds by a mixed recourse to both theory and practice...