Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quality within it that brought forth on the continent a new nation, a new birth of liberty, and with them a new wealth beyond the richest visions of the old. Thus 132,000,000 Americans . . . had become the only people of the earth's two billion who could save the hopes of the world in the simple struggle to save their...
...voice crackled in French ears: "Listen to the thunder of the guns and planes. Do you hear, M. Laval?" The voice was reading a letter broadcast to M. Laval from General Henri Giraud in Algiers. Cried the voice: "You say we are traitors. But it is we who will save France...
...them in your eagerness to get out. . . . Good water and food are available in the jungle if you know where to look for them." In the first place, if a pilot possibly can, he is advised to make a controlled crash landing instead of bailing out, not primarily to save the plane but to help save his skin. The plane will help guide searching parties, provide shelter, fuel for warmth and smoke signals, materials to make sun helmets and knives. Other handy equipment in planes: a parachute for a tent, a converted seat cushion for a sun helmet, a parachute...
...names of the original thirteen colonies or of the career of Nicholas Biddle that is responsible for the lack of judgment at the ballot boxes displayed by large sectors of the American public. It would have taken more than a knowledge of which Presidents have been assassinated to save American public opinion from the almost tragic cancer of isolationism that afflicted it. Teaching methods are made the issue by the Times report, with the result that the importance of emphasis is ignored. The stress on social implications that has resulted in the substitution of "social sciences" for straight history...
...seventeen years of existence, the reading period has grown greatly. Beginning in the Department of History, Government, and Economics, it was rapidly expanded to become part of all save laboratory courses. At first, the only objection raised by Harvard undergraduates to the system was that some professors, thoroughly enthused with their subject, assigned as much as 1500 or 1600 pages of reading for their courses alone; but such difficulties were soon eliminated, and the innovation became an established part of the Harvard educational system...