Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Education ranks third in importance as a problem to be met by the students of the University if one is to make a judgment solely on the audible clamor raised by the students themselves. Housing and prices continue to be the chief worry-makers among the candidates for Harvard degrees...
...your article that the men in command of the individual ships were not of the caliber to hold such responsibilities. ... If there was ever an unreasonable martinet, a Captain Bligh of the U.S. Navy-Captain Bode was it, but when it came to naval warfare, logical thinking, cool judgment and action, he was all the Navy and its traditions could boast. Later, for reasons unknown to us, he found it necessary to take his life, but in the early stages of the war, when there were but a few of us and little glory, Captain Bode and the U.S.S. Chicago...
...housed the foreign pencils and typewriters of the world's press corps covering the Nürnberg trials. Last week the frenzied work, the legendary drinking bouts were over. To one last gigantic press party went judges, prosecutors, almost everyone in Nürnberg but the defendants. Except for a brief Judgment Day reopening (Sept. 23), Faber was ready to take its little niche in journalistic history with such legendary press camps as Paris' Hotel Scribe, the mud-&-stone Press Hostel in Chungking...
...sunned himself on the yacht's fantail, went swimming, loafed, read. One day jovial Crony George Allen persuaded him, against his better judgment, to take a fishing trip. To his delight he caught more fish than anyone else in the party-13½ pounds all told. Even better, Major General Harry A. Vaughan got seasick while the President did not feel a qualm...
...past year I have corrected papers for 225 students. Was there really not one who said, "Well, not exactly dull . . . that is . . ."? Or didn't you leave a single one unpolled, so that in your largeness of heart you could have made clear the partiality of your judgment? Think how different the impression if you had given the statistics: Glazier, 225 students: polled, 224--dull. Then I could always have said, "Ah, but if they had inquired of Heartbalm, the result would have been different...