Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's East-West split has prevented such an "all-German" body; last January the three western zonal boards formed the German Student Association, with headquarters now in Cologne...
...case of each of the Western zones," the NSA reports, "the zonal boards were formed in 1947 with the understanding that they were to be only a preliminary organization . . . to be dissolved when political conditions in Germany permitted the formation of an all-German student organization...
...Western Vigor...
...story goes that the university was founded soon after the death of young Leland, in memory of the boy who died just before he reached college age. Senator Stanford expressed the desire that the university should bring intellectual life to the West and add to the vigor of the Western experience. He wanted a college that was free from the outworn traditions of older universities, especially one that would, in his words, "qualify its students for personal success and direct usefulness in life." He felt that colleges had become too far removed from American life. The new university would...
...with the restoration of other forms of students exchange and the obstacles blocking passage between Eastern, and Western Europe, the interchange of information among the Europeans has had to take a back seat for the moment...