Word: without
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even without a stoppage in dismantling, economists believe that Germany could have attained a reasonable standard of living; now that dismantling has been all but stopped .as a political and psychological threat to the new republic, German competition will soon be a force to be met by the French and British in commerce and trade. Obviously, further demands for wider sovereignty and the chance to produce even more will be revived by the Germans when the Western occupation statute is reviewed next fall...
...Norrises liked what they saw around Santa Barbara. It was hot country, but without the debilitating humidity of Rio. The rolling hills were forested, and the promise of water was everywhere. The Norrises sent for their family. In the next six months, some 80 other American families joined them, and by 1894, the area was so thoroughly American that paulistas took to calling it Villa Americana, a name which the state of Sao Paulo later made official...
...last week the Denver Area Welfare Council, without whose approval no organization can get community chest funds, had recognized Laradon as a member. That was the first help Joe had had, but it might not be enough. "Sometimes when the going gets rough," says he, "I wonder if the whole thing's worth while. But when I look at these kids, my own and all the others, I see that...
Inkspots & Removers. These unhappy trends, by Smith's analysis, have their beginnings in the teachers' colleges, where teachers are exposed to a thorough indoctrination of modern pedagogy, without which they could not hope for promotion ("Socrates himself would find it extremely difficult to be certified"). They waste valuable years taking courses in everything from the Rorschach inkspot method of diagnosing personality to the problems of student personnel administration. But what is education really for? The teachers' colleges, as far as Smith could determine...
...work-in-progress was denounced as "vicious Communist propaganda." Said Collins: it was merely "what I believe to be true, based on personal and vicarious experience." On Thanksgiving, N.Y.U. officials settled the matter to their own satisfaction by clearing the sketch off the wall because of "sharp student controversy . . . without passing judgment on either its artistic or philosophical merits...