Word: mens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Moscow as ambassador in March 1946, came home this year (and became commander of the U.S. First Army). In his account of his day-to-day life in Moscow, he gives the U.S. people a hard look through shrewd, unstarry Hoosier eyes at Joseph Stalin and the men in the Politburo...
...patiently in the wings, waiting for his chance to make a grand entrance on the French political scene. In recent months he has lived quietly at his home in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, leaving occasionally for speeches or visits to his headquarters in Paris, entertaining party strategists and army men. But when Georges Bidault of the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans) became Premier last month, rumors proliferated about a possible deal between Bidault and De Gaulle...
...pragmatists, who had had a vast influence over education in the U.S. for many decades, held to their basic proposition that men must study the facts at their command, test them in the light of science and their own experience and plan their conduct accordingly; it was up to each generation to decide for itself...
...Hutchins, the greatest need of the present was a broad, unified education that would train men to think importantly alone, but also to talk wisely together. For 20 years, that has been his mission at Chicago...
...great ideas the great minds have ever voiced. Meanwhile, as a result of brisk promotion by the university-organized Great Books Foundation, adult education classes in the Great Books are becoming a nationwide middlebrow vogue. Hutchins himself teaches one class of prominent Chicagoans (known as "The Fat Men's Course"). There are 50,000 other people hashing the books over, too, from Chicago's swank Union League Club to the Detroit House of Correction and the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala...