Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general education's aims (i.e., "to think effectively, to communicate thought, to make relevant judgments, to discriminate among values"), and who fail to see how the mechanical parroting of sounds contributes to the achievement of these aims. . . . It is to the Army's credit that it saw its objectives clearly and went about accomplishing them in the most direct fashion. It remains to be proved, however, that the Army's objectives are identical with those of our institutions of higher learning. ... It has been said that a speaking knowledge is the most important aspect of a foreign...
When newsmen heard of the meeting and took a look at the guest list, they thought they saw the ghosts of the little group of irreconcilables who kept the U.S. out of the League of Nations. There was some excuse for the parallel...
...skiers' only official team competition this season saw them place sixth in the annual intercollegiate meet at Lake Placid, New York, during the Christmas recess...
Asked if they thought America should nationalize her industry as Britain has done, the Oxford debaters contends that they saw no present need for such action "but that unless America does something to modify her traditional economic policy, she may be heading for a bust," Boyle stated...
...that September morning, a Japanese lieutenant of machine cannon on the island of Peleliu looked out over the Pacific Ocean and noted in his diary that what he saw made him "so furious I could feel the blood pounding in my veins throughout my body." The U.S. Marines had come, and with them a naval escort that stretched as far as the eye could see. After ten days of pounding, the warships and carrier planes ceased fire, and a transport commander said complacently to a Marine colonel: "Everything's done over there. You'll walk in." Replied...