Word: post-war
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...long range aim, however, is to see a man's college next door with coeducational classes. Most of the instructors and students find this picture attractive. During the post-war years, in the days of the veterans, Sarah Lawrence found that classes were much more stimulating with male attitudes and opinions...
...record post-war rugby crowd, estimated from program sales at nearly 500 went to Soldiers Field Saturday to watch the Crimson crack M.I.T.'s well-drilled back-line three times, and win a 9 to 3 victory. The win was the first over the Engineers for over a year, and came after three successive defeats last fall...
...throughout the tumultuous post-war years, periods that have baffled and frustrated other qualified presidents, Truman has developed into a well-intentioned, liberal, and capable leader. In foreign policy particularly Truman has proven himself...
Nevertheless, he has grasped and acted on many of the more serious economic problems facing the government and the nation. He has handled the post-war unemployment problem effectively. By maintaining high taxes, he has kept down inflation; and at the same time, taxes have not been so high as to discourage production of consumer goods...
...many shortcomings, most of them inherent in the problem it attacks. The material is disconnected, since it consists merely of excerpts. It was winnowed out of countless papers and conversations, and presumably gives a one-sided favorable impression of Truman. Mr. President does not give the inside story on post-war American history, for it does not attempt to--despite the Byrnes and Wallace memos which received such attention in the press when the book came out. There are scores of photographs, many of them good, many of them repetitious, and many of them irrelevant...