Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact of the matter is that the university most emphatically does not intend to repeat the mad rush of 1917-18. Harvard will not become an armed camp, nor will its primary purpose be the nurturing of cannon fodder. The University's donation to this war will be not so much flesh and blood as brains, specialized and trained in science, economics, and the art of modern war. Except for the three-year program, there are no plans to curtail academic work for students. On the contrary, the curriculum will be increased by the addition of new defense courses training...
Word that a mad killer was loose spread through the district. Police mobilized the largest force of. the war for the man hunt. Newspapers pushed war news aside to make way for a running account of the terror. Ambulances from the Air Raid Precautions services were dispatched to the suburbs. As the day grew older, the list of victims mounted...
...Invitation to Learning (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) returned at a new time, 11:30 a.m. to 12 E.S.T., with discussion of the second most popular books in the world (Don Quixote). The talkers Mark Van Doren, John Peale Bishop and Jacques Barzan, examined the mad knight of Cervantes as an archetype of all high-minded but ill-informed reformers, found a recent treatment of the same subject in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. They agreed, however, that Cervantes' Man-in-the-Street. Sancho Panza, learned from Don Quixote a lot that he needed to know...
What makes me mad about our national policy is that it is based on incomplete reasoning. The equivocal speeches of the President fail to carry the idea of defeating Hitler through to a practical program. There is no military prospectus which deals with the actual facts in front of us yet. Such a prospectus it seems to me is of vital importance. It is the first premise of our whole Beat Hitler policy...
...Piping mad, the dealers pulled what looked like a sit-down strike, refused to cooperate in selling the issue. Aside from losing $112,500 in commissions, their very careers were at stake. If Louisville G. & E. successfully distributes the issue with its amateur salesmen, many another utility will copy the idea. And new utility issues -the result of SEC's holding-company dissolutions-have been the biggest piece of prospective business on the security dealers' horizon...