Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These reductions did not, in all cases, reflect lower profits. Chief explanations: 1) higher taxes; 2) cash must be saved for war work and post-war adjustments...
Combining these opinions, Thomas Matters '43, urged that most students take the time to distribute and reflect on their courses, in an effort to prepare themselves "to live a good life." Some undergraduates, however, who are planning to attend graduate school, are justified in accelerating their program, for their post-graduate training will give them adequate time to mature...
...pigment glows for several minutes or hours after exposure to light, it is phosphorescent. If the afterglow is very brief-perhaps only 1/10,000th of a second - the pigment is fluorescent. Hence fluorescent substances glow only when continuously exposed to invisible ultraviolet rays ("black light"), which they reflect as visible light...
Adolf Hitler once said: "Generals have sterile minds. . . . They remain encrusted in their professional technique. . . . They want to go on comporting themselves as medieval knights. ... I don't want knights." But this New Year the Oberste Befehlshaber had reason to reflect that he was surrounded by knights. It was an uneasy season...
Because the success of the next push-to Dérna or Bengazi-will directly reflect Ritchie's ability, it will be the high spot of his career, and of the offensive. Neil Ritchie is only 44. If only because of his youth, he may do better than Cunningham, who is ten years his senior. But his career, from subaltern in the Black Watch at 17 to Major General at 43, has been almost too formal to promise the flashes of unorthodoxy which usually herald great commanders...