Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These reports, of course, are the ones which make the headlines, while the rest of the Council's activity goes unhonored and unsung. Typical of the Council reports, for example, were the two on the state of Harvard education. The first report, published in the spring of 1939, urged that Harvard's curriculum be broadened and undergraduate specialization decreased. Later reissued in printed form, this report has been sent to colleges and universities all over the country, and served as the basis for discussion at several Faculty meetings a few years ago. A year later the Council issued a second...
...Class of 1917, strong in numbers, body and spirit, who have returned now to the Yard in a flurry of badges and class ties. This little booklet, meant only to serve and direct them through the harrowing experience of a reunion, should not be allowed to remain unhonored and unsung in the crowded pockets of the wives and children of the class or in the clutter of an editor's desk. That was where we found it, though the child made a certain amount of trouble it, though the child made a certain amount of trouble until we beat...
...Silver Stars. They got these awards for steering their submarine, loaded with a huge store of gold, silver and other Philippine treasure, from Corregidor through Jap-infested waters to a cruiser that transshipped the precious cargo to San Francisco. But in that prodigious, daring smuggling feat there was one unsung hero...
...most unsung hero of World War II had last week gained control of 20,000 of the 96,000 square miles of a nation which Adolf Hitler imagined he had conquered early last spring. The Nazis had quit trying to dislodge Yugoslavia's General Draja Mihailovich from the cold mountains southwest of Belgrade and had retired to that city to await warmer weather. General Mihailovich was issuing passports for "Unoccupied Serbia," which he also called "an island of freedom...
...miles of his capital. Against better equipment and the greatest war machine the world has yet seen, they have fought, and yielded ground, have taken and inflicted stupendous losses, and gone on fighting. The credit for that achievement, for taking untold punishment, may belong far more to that unsung hero, the common Russian soldier, long-suffering and long-courageous...