Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rnberg's dignity. Eleven judges had been picked by U.S. General MacArthur from names submitted by eleven nations; there was bickering throughout the trial. At the final verdict (TIME, Nov. 22), the court's prestige was further muddied by U.S. Prosecutor Joseph Keenan's remark that Mamoru Shigemitsu (for whom he had asked the death sentence) should really have been acquitted. Presiding Justice Sir William Webb of Australia (after condemning seven of the defendants to death) said that he did not believe in capital punishment...
...President Truman (reported by Pearson to have made an anti-Semitic remark) : "I had thought I wouldn't have to add another liar's star to that fellow's crown, but I will have...
...Bender was still Counsellor for Veterans back in the spring of 1946-- he "academic foxholes." He was thinking mainly of those veterans who wanted to rear through college, "making up for lost time," and consequently putting everything but grades far to the side. The other day somebody made a remark which I would like to pass on to Dean Bender, in case he is still worrying, as evidence that the era of the "academic foxhole" is pretty much gone...
...remark was this : "I want to be the very best C-student in Harvard College." This credo strikes me as representing fairly accurately a growing attitude in Harvard today. A man wants to learn something, but not too much; he wants to learn something, but not to hard; he wants to be the least gentlemanly of the gentleman C boys, but may the good Lord keep him from becoming a grind...
Although the Crimson Key Society is less than three months old, its members feel that they have helped to improve University hospitality. Perhaps the remark of Dartmouth's football manager tells just what progress the group has made...