Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chapel speech yesterday morning, Mr. Conant stated that America's chief hope for development as a free nation rests on the "number and influence" of its "tough-minded idealists." Recalling the glib complacency of those who, a year ago, oblivious of "the ominous consequences of the technical transformation of the art of war," foresaw the fulfillment of all the slick magazine ads picturing the happy, unruffled post-war world, he asked, "Should we have really expected a totally different post-war era?" But for Mr. Conant, realization of the hard cold facts of the atomic age is only half...
What manner of man is Mr. Conant's tough-minded idealist, on whom he pins so much hope? Seemingly, he must walk the razor's edge between cynicism and sentimentalism, a man of faith, but yet one who constantly submits that faith to rigorous analysis and criticism. A man determined not to confine his ideals to noble platitudes, but to afford them real meaning by comparison of various concrete approximations of those ideals. And, finally, not a revolutionist, yet something more than a gradualist--a believer in "rapid evolution...
Starting the year with his traditional chapel talk at Memorial Church yesterday morning, President Conant emphasized the important role "tough-minded idealists" will play in the future destiny of free countries...
...tough front, sent out some 2,500 agents to try once more to hold its price line against the black market. In New York City, where about two out of every three butcher shops closed, some black marketeers showed utter contempt for OPA's toughness. They bluntly told OPA agents to scram...
...Twelve years ago President Conant decided that something should be done about Harvard's reputation for producing effete esthetes, few in actual number, but high in visibility. Results: a $100,000-a-year scheme of National Scholarships, to bring to Harvard talented, tough-minded Westerners and Midwesterners; and a general admissions policy aimed at attracting "healthy extraverts...