Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organization, be it government, navy, commercial or educational, will from time to time need to adjust itself to charging conditions. It is only by this process that we eliminate the old and adopt the new. Commodore Strauss has vigorously and successfully introduced and advocated new ideas in order that the Navy may be better able to meet its changing and increasing obligations...
Under the twin impact of nationalism and resentment of Western exploitation, colonial, subservient Asia had begun to disintegrate decades ago. World War II had greatly accelerated the process. The war had enfeebled, physically and psychologically, the claims of Western power over the Eastern treasure house. The French and Dutch, hungry and shivering at home, seemed particularly awkward in the role of guardians of empire...
Logistics & Morale. The problem of recapturing Manchuria from the Communists, to whom the Russians consistently resign control by the handy process of an early withdrawal before the National forces can arrive, seems largely one of communications and supply until Mukden is reached...
...support his preference, carving direct in stone or wood, De Creeft quotes Michelangelo ("sculpture is done by a process of removal"), soft-pedaling the fact that most of Michelangelo's stone carvings were copied from studies which he modeled in wax, and that all of his bronzes were cast from modeled clay. De Creeft believes that a sculpture, like the chicken in the egg, is partially "preexistent" in the shape of the block, the grain, the texture. He thinks of himself as trying to "collaborate" with the stone to free the figure concealed inside...
...Crimson scoring, it was an almost continuous process. For example, in the bloodiest quarter, the fourth, Harvard scored four times. On the first play Chuck Harwood dashed 27 yards for a touchdown. B.U. was held for downs, kicked, and on the first play from scrimmage Hal Miller zoomed across from the 43. B.U. did an encore; Harvard went 155 yards in six plays (five called back), the last being Harwood's 35 yard touchdown. B.U. fumbled on its 35, and Herb Eckenroth scored four plays later...