Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, I may call your attention to two facts. First, since Pearl Harbor approximately 60,000 members of the armed forces have attended Army and Navy schools here at Harvard. Second, as many as, 1,000 men and women have been engaged full time in the war research activities carried on by the University under contract with the United States Government. Physicists, chemists, engineers, and technical men from other universities and from industry have been mobilized under our management for several different enterprises. These figures illustrate the magnitude of some of our undertakings...
...oldest, the Japanese-born Issei, were reserved, puritanical people, who clung to an old country belief in hard work, personal integrity and obedience to tradition. They felt a sense of loyalty to Japan and had grave misgivings about the flipness, the new and careless attitudes of U.S.-born Nisei. Pearl Harbor had filled them with indecision. Many wanted Japan to win the war, but they did not want the U.S.-the country in which their children would go on living-to lose. ¶The Nisei had grown away from the Japanese beliefs that they had been taught as children, felt...
...shrewd, witty New Englander, the ninth of ten children, Harold Bowen has had a long and lively career in the Navy. He was chief of its Bureau of Engineering and director of the Naval Research Laboratory before Pearl Harbor. Since then he has been a special assistant and troubleshooter for the Secretary of the Navy, specializing in operating seized, strikebound plants. At 61 he is still one of the youngest, most energetic men in the Navy. Each evening he and his equally energetic wife walk a "fourmile loop in Washington's streets. The Admiral, whose enthusiasms are never halfhearted...
...bath. He paid the customary Sunday calls on fellow undergraduates in morning dress and top hat. He watched Poet Matthew Arnold (in lavender kid gloves) "slipping through the Balliol gateway" on visits to Platonist Benjamin Jowett (who seemed to be always "hurrying, like Puck, to 'hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear'"). He saw Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet of Esthete Walter Pater, whose mustaches hung "pendulous in the shadow." He became stroke of the Trinity boat. During vacations he read...
...Philosopher-Emeritus William Ernest Hocking, are spiritual. Without its spiritual guid ance, "God knows what religion we would have - possibly Druidism, if we have a Celtic rill in our veins. . . . Whatever forms of religion are alive among us we owe to Asia." "We of the West," declares Novelist Pearl Buck, "need to have happiness restored to us, not through a new spiritual rebirth, but through a plain and simple return [to the Eastern conviction that] what makes a human being happy is to feel himself wanted and understood and appreciated. The fabulous courtesy of the East is not a ritual...