Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point inadequate budget expectations from the 81st Congress put a stop to plans to bring the forces up to the authorized 900,000-man level...
...season's high point, the Yale game, the band had 80 members, but 35 of these didn't play. It was a good show, though. During the early winters of the organization's career, two dance bands were formed to travel around the country raising funds, and upon their success depended the band's life the next season...
...operate completely on the honor system at West Point--and any deviation from it means immediate dismissal," said Cadet George F. Flisides last night in a forum on "Objectives and Methods of Education at West Point and Harvard...
...Winthrop House talk resolved into a discussion as to which institution has a more satisfactory method of turning out better citizens. Cadet Robert G. Gard admitted, "We have no electives at West Point--we're aiming toward a single definite goal--soldier and citizen." There is a 60-40 ratio of scientific to cultural subjects in the Military Academy today, added Cadet Joseph B. Love...
Less publicized examples indicate a similar trend in Germany, however. Back in July, an Allied Military Government public opinion poll, which the Social Relations people point out may have under-estimated the situation, revealed that "sympathy for National Socialism" had jumped more than 20 per cent in two years. An independent survey, run off at the same time, spotted former Nazis in more than one-half of all Bavarian State Government positions...