Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this period of a cold war," he said, "I do not believe the usual rules as to political parties apply to the Communist Party. I am convinced that conspiracy and calculated deceit have been and are the characteristic pattern of behavior of regular Communists all over the world...
Today we are in a period of passing excitement in this country as a consequence of the reactions which almost always follow a war and the tensions created by a divided world. As has happened repeatedly in the history of the universities, Harvard, along with other American institutions of advanced learning, is being subject to criticism, most of which is based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of university work...
...this period of a cold war, I do not believe the usual rules as to political parties apply to the Communist party. I am convinced that conspiracy and calculated deceit have been and are the characteristic pattern of behavior of regular Communists all over the world. For these seasons, as far as I am concerned, card holding members of the Communist party are out of bounds as members of the teaching profession. I should not want to be a party to the appointment of such a person to a teaching position with tenure in any educational institution. But with this...
President Wilbur K. Jordan (above), Radcliffe's fourth chief of staff, holds a dual position as Annex head and Harvard professor of history, teaches an advanced history course dealing with the doings of the Tudors and their subjects in England and conducts a seminar in the Stuart period of English history, and sits on a number of Radcliffe and Harvard-Radcliffe committees in the bargain...
...then there is the complication that exam period or ablate data can offer. Both of these distractions have the same general effect; to wit, they dim the scribble's unflinching regard for detailed research and careful analysis, reducing him to what sometimes borders on wild guesswork...