Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laymen, who have puzzled over the many seesaws of Spain's war, with victory now teetering on the side of the Leftists, now tilting back to the Rightists, could thank the Satevepost last week for a professional military analysis of the war by Major Thomas R. Phillips, faculty member of the top-rank U. S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
...Government offensives have shown some initial success. The reason lies in the thinly held lines. About 400,000 men on each side are spread along more than 850 miles of front. In the World War, 4,000,000 men held lines less than half as long. Either side in Spain can attack with initial success if they achieve a measure of surprise. The true test comes when the hostile reserves have been rushed in to counterattack. By this test the Government has failed in every effort...
Backing up Huntington is a statement from Burton H. Camp, president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics: "Dr. Rhine's investigations have two aspects, experimental and statistical. On the experimental side mathematicians of course have nothing...
...statistical side, however, recent mathematical work has established the fact that, assuming the statistical analysis is essentially valid, if the Rhine investigation is to be fairly attacked it must be on other than mathematical grounds...
...committee, however, decided to concentrate its efforts on "teaching and research," simply side-stepping the other questions. Budgetary problems and the trend to social sciences are closely related, for History, Government, and Economics in particular, and English to some degree, are Harvard's most crowded fields and promise to continue their growth. In these departments, too, the twin specter exists of a large group of young instructors eager to advance and of limited, permanent top faculty positions filled in large measure with young men. Further, as the report itself points out, University financial statements reveal that a "frozen" budget...