Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This hard fact dominated last week's parleys in Algiers, at which Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honore Giraud hammered out the mold of a new, united France. Through De Gaullism the people of France struck a blow for themselves and a blow against secret diplomacy. Neither General Giraud, whose authority in North Africa had been recognized by the U.S. and Great Britain while De Gaulle fretted in London, nor U.S. Minister Robert D. Murphy, who has a distaste for both De Gaulle and De Gaullism, dared to flout their will...
Stahl has a fair sprinkling of veterans still on hand, and it is around these men that he intends to mold his 1943 club. Ned Fitzgibbons, the team's foremost slugger, who has played at first base and in the outfield for Harvard, has been shifted to the catcher's job, a post where he is more at home...
Although still new to Harvard and the Supply Corps, the Midshipmen have learned to place their trust in these men and have seen their efficient administration mold a diversified group of new Navy men into a well organized and smooth functioning unit...
...wonder drug of 1943 may prove to be penicillin, obscured since its discovery in Britain in 1929, only now getting its thorough sickroom trial. It is made from a mold (TIME, Sept. 15, 1941) by a slow, laborious process. All the penicillin in the U.S. at any one time has never been more than about enough to treat 30 cases...
...mind the great blessing of Harvard training in free individualist responsibility is its unbinding us from any narrowing systems of thought or limiting habits of mind and thus freeing us each and all to mold our ideas and temper our feelings so that we may unify ourselves with all elements of strength in our country. Only through that unity among all our countrymen may there develop the highest energy of all parts of our national life for the great effort that our country now must make...