Word: outset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped at the outset to have been of service to these people stranded in mid-Pacific but due to lack of financial backing it has been necessary to abandon the voyage despite the fact that the vessel is ready...
...shooting, determined people facing front. It was at least 2,000,000 trained men and 5,000 airplanes against 200,000 trained men and 150 airplanes, but the tough-fibred Finns provided a test for the Red war machine which the rest of the world watched intently. From the outset it was apparent that the Reds could not match the Nazis at Blitzkrieg...
...Administration divides associate professors into three groups: those earmarked for eventual promotion to full professorships; those who are from the outset destined to rise no higher than the rank of associate professor; and those who are "competing" for futures promotion to full professorships...
...What is in question is solely the appointment of a larger number of associate professors to compete as equals, over a period of years, for a lesser number of full professorships. Under such a policy, no one would be tagged as destined from the outset to be given a full professorship, and none need be tagged as destined to be denied it. Under such a policy, disappointments when they come would be gradual, and would be founded at least on permanence rather than prediction. We cannot believe that the avoidance of such disappointments ought to be the lodestar...
...best possible recommendation for an appointment in another university; and men lacking a guarantee of further advance here would consider seriously the offer of such an appointment. Thus, it would not be surprising if in the long run the policy here urged actually escaped the objection stated at the outset--of a substantial surplus of permanent associate professors. By the same token the proposed policy would better rather than lessen the chances of younger teachers not yet up for permanent appointment. This would be true, indeed, even if the percentage of associate professors staying on at the University remained unchanged...