Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preparing for Limited War. The Navy is arguing persuasively that postwar history proves that the U.S. must be ready to wage limited wars, and that in them the Navy would have vital jobs to do: keeping open sea lanes of transportation and communication, applying air power from offshore carriers. In...
Harvard, while recognizing the merits of this system, is not willing to go this far. "We are planning more and more emphasis on speaking," Frohock says, "but the fact remains that while my barber may speak French better than I do, he hasn't got a single intelligent thing to...
Hatfield points out that some advancement has been made in the reading of German; on two separate occasions, teaching fellows gained promotions on the basis of their ability in elementary courses rather than by seniority or by academic accomplishments. But this is only a half-way solution. The teacher in...
There is no reason this system would not work here as the University has a wealth of foreign graduate students to choose from who would probably be quite willing to teach (or supervise) a class in their own native tongue. This system, however, is only effective in a class run...
In the last three years there has been only one real change in the situation. Britain has decided she doesn't need the island so desperately after all, and now seems willing to give considerable ground toward effecting a compromise solution. She must retain control of her all-important military...