Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powers, Canada included, expected that after the election the U.S. would be ready to get down to cases on the cost (estimated at $2 billion a year) and the exact extent of U.S. military aid for Europe. Canada was ready to fit her military setup into the overall Atlantic scheme, but obviously her contribution would be mainly in the air, in air training, and as an arsenal of supply...
...decades ago with the reminder that we are men and not God, that God is in the heavens and that we are on the earth. The wheel is come full circle. It is now in danger of offering a crown without a cross, a triumph without a battle, a scheme of justice without the necessity of discrimination, a faith which has annulled rather than transmuted perplexity-in short, a too simple and premature escape from the trials . . . duties and tragic choices which are the condition of our common humanity. The Christian faith knows of a way through these sorrows...
...This scheme is consistent with the most up to date thinking in education today. Last December President Truman's Commission on Higher Education reported that 49 per cent of the entire United States population was mentally capable of passing the thirteenth and fourteenth grades, or the freshman and sophomore college years. But the Commission also noted that only 25 per cent of the population ever gets as far as the fourteenth grade. For the remaining untutored 24 per cent the Commission and President Conant have urged the local two-year college, tailored to the needs of the students...
Peter Grahame Fletcher, an old Dover College boy, had spent his U.S. year at New Jersey's Peddie School. He preferred the English scheme of sorting the bright boys and the bumbleheads into separate forms to the American method of lumping them into an "intellectually mediocre" alloy. Fletcher considered his history teachers at Peddie too insistent on their own nationalistic opinions. ("At Dover, my history master told us to find out for ourselves who was right and who was wrong.") Charles Frederick Kinnard Dunn, who had gone from Eastbourne College to Pennsylvania's rich Hill School, was also...
...alumni banded together to express its approval of the activities center, and successfully stimulated additional alumni interest. The Alumni Bulletin also came out for a large-scale memorial. At its next meeting on February 29, the Saltonstall Committee recognized alumni sentiment. It lent preliminary approval to a $750,000 scheme for an auditorium attached to Memorial Hall and meeting rooms in the building's basement--all in addition to the plaque. In April it was found that the center would cost more than $750,000, and Sonator Saltonstall promised that his group would continue to work on the plan...