Word: outgrowths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stark terms of treason and sedition and proposes to weed out the disloyal elements in the Civil Service. Hopefully flavored with the axiom that all the men serving a government must be faithful, the current tests seem to be the product of a bitter witch hunt rather than the outgrowth of natural security measures...
...sincerity of the U.S. . . . is on trial in Korea. . . . We have dug in. We shall stay until our mission is accomplished." The military figure of speech was apt. In Korea the U.S. faced the Soviets across a steel line bisecting the country-the 38th parallel. This was the outgrowth of Yalta. To the north were 10,000,000 Koreans under Soviet rule, with nearly all the nation's industrial resources but little agriculture. To the south were 20,000,000 Koreans under U.S. rule, with nearly all the nation's agricultural resources but little industry, fuel or power...
Designed with an eye to measuring how well the veterans' subsistence allowance in meeting college expenses, the poll is an outgrowth of requests from Dean Hanford, and its results will be used largely in determining scholarship policy towards former service...
...vast void in the serious magazine field at Harvard narrowed two days ago with the publication of the new "Progressive." An outgrowth of the old four-page "Student Progressive," the new magazine is five times as thick and proportionately broader in scope. It boldly intends to "start with the student's daily problems of eating, living and learning, and range through polities, the social sciences and philosophy, not neglecting literature and the arts, both classical and popular." Such a catholicity of interest, while probably not realizable within the confines of a monthly twenty-page publication, at least demonstrates that...
Just because patients sit in a catatonic-like position does not necessarily mean they are neglected. It may be the outgrowth of their illness - just as a person in pain may double up in agony, so a mentally ill person may take any characteristic pose he chooses...