Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These two projects--the Bulletin and the library--constitute two main phases of the International Student Information Service. Main emphasis of the program is on Southeast Asia and the Middle East where, according to Kennan, "student groups in these newly independent countries are faced with problems of economic development, shaky...
It's really a shame that this year's Cornell game has been moved back to the comparative isolation of Ithaca's Schoellkopf Crescent. A shame, that is, because the mighty (and mighty big) Big Red has one of the finer T squads in this part of the country--as...
"The Soviet Union excelled in the number of men capable of bearing arms . . . The main bulwark of the U.S. was their air force . . . it was in the United States that very long-range bombers first were built. No doubt the Americans had peace for the present but the United States...
Groton, the Electric Boat Co. sealed off a special section of their yard and nicknamed it "Siberia." There, in guarded isolation, the Navy's shipbuilders and scientists started putting together a wooden mock-up of the atomic sub.
Hans Kohn must be used to teaching in isolation. He first taught in a Russian prison camp where "people were so bored they were willing to listen." Later he spent 15 years teaching the girls at secluded Smith College in Northampton.