Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldier Bradley cut straight to the heart of the whole arms issue. Said he: "Plans for the common defense of the existing free world must provide for the security of Western Europe without abandoning these countries to the terrors of another enemy occupation. Only upon that premise can nations closest to the frontiers be expected to stake their fortunes with ours in the common defense...
...time Bradley had finished, Senate opposition to the pact was dwindling fast. All week long the committeemen were urged to speed its ratification by a whole parade of witnesses: former Under Secretaries of State Will Clayton and Robert Lovett, the Republicans' John Foster Dulles, former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, Senator Robert Taft's brother, Charles P. Taft, former head of the Federal Council of Churches...
...must leave the water together, a snap of the wrists must feather them, and the crewmen must slide their bodies forward and their oars back into position again with a smooth, even motion that does not check the run of the shell. If this much is accomplished successfully the whole cycle begins again, and each man must concentrate on doing exactly the same thing in the same way once more--about 300 time in a mile-and-three-quarters race, or about 700 times in the classic four-mile Yale race at New London...
...have everything; must economize; better no department than a too-small one. There were counter arguments: Harvard's Geography staff was as large as corresponding departments in other Universities; the Geographical Institute was a big positive asset. Then the administration pulled the "no comment" shade down on the whole mess...
...whole thing is out in the open now, and the new committee is talking a look-see. Even if the group doesn't revive Geography it can at least give the field a decent burial...