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...Committee, in the case of high schools, does not view a tightening in the curriculum as the shield against these dangers. It suggests, indeed, "even a greater diversity than exists at present in the still largely bookish curriculum, since nothing else will match the actual range of intelligence and background among students...
...army the American liaison advisers live in compact groups of 20 or 30, attached to each army headquarters with their own messes and own company to shield off loneliness. But in the old army and lower down the highway, an American unit consists of four to ten men, a couple of gasoline drums, the ubiquitous jeep, a radio, and 20 to 30 cases of dehydrated rations...
...recognition of "regionalism" at San Francisco. But such men as Brazil's Velloso or Cuba's Belt were not enemies of world organization. Their nations had relied so long upon the U.S. for their fundamental security that they could no more bring themselves to abandon this shield than the U.S. Congress could bring itself to shift its main reliance from the Army and the Fleet to the Security Council...
...Urged that the security organization being set up in San Francisco (see INTERNATIONAL), should "not become a shield for the strong and a mockery for the weak...
...Reader Hemphill is on the right track. Each English Public (i.e., private) School has a special tie which "old boys" may proudly wear. Its colors (e.g., Eton's light blue line on black, Harrow's dark blue with white bands) are often based on the heraldic shield of the founder. As ,a symbol of Toryism, the Old School Tie fell into disrepute a decade ago, was later made a scapegoat for Britain's failure to prepare for war. It has also figured in many a feeble Britticism. Sample: a young Etonian, meeting a shabby fellow wearing...