Word: readjusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exercise-seeking students swarmed through the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday to chalk up the highest attendance yet suffered by that edifice, and attempts are now being made to readjust schedules to handle the mobs...
Harvard. So rapidly did Harvard readjust itself in the three months after Pearl Harbor that this period became known as "The Hundred Days." Masters of understatement, Harvardians now frankly admit: "We are living for the war." Soldiers Field is a melee of officer training and physical training exertions. Army and Navy specialists, in uniform, number 2,000. President Conant and other professors commute so frequently to Washington that the New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R.'s Senator out of South Station is almost a Harvard Club car. In the last war there were 11,000 Harvardmen: the Alumni Association...
Greatest challenge was the triumphant emergence of a new human type, totalitarian man-superbly armed, deliberately destructive and dominant-at the very heart of what had been Europe's cultural sanctuaries. To this grim fact of 1940 men tried to readjust themselves in 1941 in books like Eugene Bagger's For the Heathen Are Wrong ($3); Gottfried Leske's I Was a Nazi Flier ($2.50); Hermann Rauschning's The Conservative Revolution ($2.75); William Henry Chamberlain's The World's Iron...
...fall of France challenged other values. France was more than a country. It was source and symbol of the most gracious, rational and rarified in Western civilization. In this sense, when France fell, night fell. To this dark fact men tried to readjust themselves in books like Arthur Koestler's Scum of the Earth ($2.50); Hans Habe's A Thousand Shall Fall ($3); Thomas Kernan's able and objective France on Berlin Time...
Soon there was projected against the night of France the flames of physically burning London. To the fact of Britain's violent destruction and heroic resistance men tried to readjust themselves in books like Margaret Kennedy's Where Stands a Winged Sentry ($2); Blood, Sweat and Tears, Winston Churchill's Speeches ($3); John Strachey's Digging for Mrs. Miller...