Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...training program, Harry Truman proposed comparatively small regular forces, with a greatly strengthened National Guard and organized reserves for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. And he proposed that the armed services should improve their training standards-thus anticipating the arguments of those who consider close-order drill poor insurance against atomic-age aggression...
Majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels trampled and jostled each other to get places in line. Japanese boys seemed to enjoy the spectacle as they opened packing cases of field sabers, the poor man's samurai sword, and stacked them for the issuing officers. Lieutenant colonels and colonels got an extra dividend: a pair of binoculars...
Comparing education to "an artillery barrage sometimes so poor in timing that it slays its own advancing troops," Professor Hooton concluded by asserting that if science can tell men in what capacity they may best die, it should surely be allowed to tell them in what capacity they may best live...
...bloc. . . . Everything is centered on one man-the leader, the hero, the duce, the Führer. Herd responses not being on the rational level, this hero does not appeal by argument. ('I was just realizing how much better it is to reason with these poor wayward fellows,' Plastic Man observes as he drives a left to the jaw.) He builds on the herd's dreams: he hypnotizes. Thus did Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The Superman of the cartoons is true to his sources. He is not another Horatio Alger hero or a Nick Carter...
...famed child-psychologist and long time professor at the University of Iowa, in 1938, tweedy, babyfaced, middle-aged George Dinsmore Stoddard jolted his colleagues by demonstrating that I.Q.s (supposedly determined at birth) could be altered by environment. The methods: 1) planting some 300 children of feeble-minded parents and "poor stock" in good homes, where they turned out quite bright; 2) observing the "deterioration" of apparently normal youngsters in the unsalutary atmosphere of overcrowded orphanages...