Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest peacetime Army expansion in U. S. history, the General Staff is as busy as beavers in a springtime flood. To lighten the work of Deputy Chief of Staff William Bryden, Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall fortnight ago appointed a second deputy: scholarly, friendly Brigadier General Richard Curtis Moore of the Engineers. Last week General Marshall appointed another Engineer officer to take Dick Moore's place as head of the G-4 (supply) section of the General Staff. Chosen to run the section which oversees most of the household details of Army life, from buying soldiers...
...Moreover, is it not worth stressing the fact that University teaching--differing in this respect from College instruction--ought to be accompanied by research? This, however, is not always possible on account of the heavy teaching load that a University professor carried. But would it not be advisable to lighten the burden of class-room instruction so that there might be more opportunity for original research? Marcel Francon...