Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theory of Selective Service, that some national authority would determine what every individual was best qualified to do, has not been followed, Hutchins stated. Instead inter-service competition has lowered all Reserve requirements without regard to necessary qualifications. At the same time drives to get volunteers from college age groups raise doubts in the minds of all those told, on the one hand, to remain in college, and, on the other, to enlist...
...were the passive peoples upon whom operated the dynamic faiths born in Russia, Germany and Japan. And because the faiths of Germany and Japan found expression in the deification of their own nation and race they led inevitably to war. The leaders of America, without regard to party or creed, are determined that this shall not happen again. We recognize that military victory will be hardly won, and if won will prove but illusory unless there is born in ourselves that faith which makes men strong and fills them with a sense of mission in the world. We also realize...
...After the U.S.S.R.'s Foreign Minister Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov visited London and Washington in May and June, Downing Street and the White House said: Full understanding was reached with regard to the urgent task of creating a second front in Europe...
...hardest job in constructing homemade telescopes is grinding the mirrors. These must be accurate to within 1/400,000 inch, and amateur telescopists regard opticians-who grind spectacle lenses to within only 1/10,000 inch-as crude workmen. To make a mirror, two flat slabs of glass are rubbed together off center with fine abrasives in between. Slowly a concave parabolic surface is formed on one slab, which is then coated with silver. The work is all done by hand; it is not considered sporting to use a grinding machine unless it too is homemade. The average homemade telescope represents...
...position of the Masters in regard to the Stadent Council's proposal for an inter-House dance committee has been misunderstood. The Masters did not reject or "table" the plan, but referred it to the several House Committees for action. This they did because the Dunster House Committee had expressed objections to certain features of the plan and the Masters were reluctant to take action in a student matter while such an objection stood. A majority of the Masters were in favor of the plan, with only the objecting because be felt it was an attempt to centralize the otherwise...