Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mercury's editors Martin Greenberg, 34, and Gunther Stuhlmann, 26, resigned. Said their joint statement: "It had been our understanding that the magazine would strive to represent dynamic and sophisticated conservatism-in Mencken's words, 'Tory, but civilized Tory'-and that was the direction in which we sought to guide it." But in view of [Maguire's] lack of sympathy [with these views], we feel it impossible to continue...
...time for the English Department to build up strength is now, when it still has the basic courses. It should strive for increased number of teachers, attraction of better-known professors to the University and it should close the historical gaps which beset current English majors. Most especially, it should have the foresight to make allowances for sickness, thus avoiding blatant course omissions...
...Haiti last winter, she rough-sketched The Blessing Strive (right, above), then submitted the finished picture for Massachusetts' Springfield Museum of Fine Arts' 12th annual purchase exhibition. The public voted...
Taft would not withdraw from Europe; he would keep there the six U.S. divisions already committed, and he would provide arms for allies. He would stay with the U.N. He would strive for a truce in Korea, then arm the South Koreans and pull out U.S. troops. But his basic point was that the U.S. could not match Russia in ground-force manpower. Nor must the U.S. "admit that our safety depends on begging bayonets from Germany or from France." The U.S. must be strong in its own right, and such strength lay, above all, in "control...
Witness Baruch was ready to agree that the rearmament program must guard against "obsolescence" and strive constantly to improve weapons. But concern with this factor-the bird in the bush-seemed to him to be blotting out the need for the U.S. to build up an overwhelming stockpile of guns and ammunition. Such an arsenal, if occasion arose, could supply peoples everywhere on the long Russian border, help pin down the Soviet armies, contribute decisively to the chances for peace...