Word: kernel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disposition of the Red Army. Three-dimensional warfare offers new scope for this principle. Large armies can be landed by air in the farthest reaches of the enemy's rear lines; such forces, in addition to destroying vital industrial centers and occupying strategic points, would also constitute a kernel for civil...
...Conant's "Wanted: American Radicals," in the May 1943 Atlantic Monthly, "urged the need of the American radical not because I wish to give a blanket endorsement to his views, but because I see the necessity of reinvigorating a neglected aspect of our . . . development." Conant said that "the kernel of [this] radical philosophy" would be a "demand to confiscate [by constitutional methods] all property once a generation...
...didn't know it, deception is the keynote of the "Harlow system," the device which beats the material Harvard never had. Dick always denied that there was such a system; he pointed out that his plays always changed from year to year. That was a fact, but the kernel of whatever it was, call it a system or not, was always there; series after series of carefully-executed plays, each one from a different basic setup, together with a shifting defense and a generous spicing of psychological tricks...
...Jesus," says Dr. Scott, ". . . religion was no mere shell, enclosing an ethic, which was the kernel. He thought of morality as growing out of religion, and existing for the sake of it. The idea that you may discard the religion of Jesus and still retain his pure morality is utterly mistaken, for without the religion you have nothing...
After the oats are in, there is time out for the farrowing. Then it is high time to plough for corn. On the Kuester farm every kernel of corn is used for feed. Of the thousands of bushels he has grown over the years, Gus claims that he has marketed not more than 150 bushels. He has sometimes had to buy more corn...