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...hate to disappoint people who expect something sensational . . . but trick plays of the shoestring variety don't constitute a successful football system. You've got to go back to the bedrock of blocking, tackling, and position play, and rehearse your kids until they are letter perfect in their assignments...
...years between the Liberal Party's birth and World War I, Liberal Governments under nine Prime Ministers ruled Britain for 52 years. With Ramsay MacDonald's Laborites and the Tories monopolizing political luster since 1922, the Liberals developed party schisms and retired ungratefully to a bedrock representation of 20 Members of Parliament. It seemed evident last week that in retirement the Liberal Party had found time to think: about Britain and what they want for it, and what they want for their Party...
Each of these methods may ruin an oil well for months. In most cases, the quickest way to reopen a thoroughly demolished well is to bore another shaft right beside the old one. This is a matter of weeks or months, depending on the toughness of the bedrock and depth of the oil. In the Russian fields, the bedrock is generally soft, the oil not far (often less than 1,000 feet) below the surface...
...principles that we do have are very few. Most of the methods we believed right have been swept away by the war and the history of the last twenty years. We are back to bedrock, trying to work out a world in which peace and security are possible. We've learned some lessons about what not to do, but when we immediately translate these lessons into a dogmatic plan like Union Now, we're ignoring their main part. We're forgetting the most important principle of all--that the world government must be based on the participation of all members...
Later, when the Battle of the Atlantic is in a desperate stage, when the U.S. has gained even more time to arm, with more precious months added to those since Dunkirk, the President and the U.S. can face what Columnist Ray Clapper last week called "the bedrock question." Then the President could decide what he meant by the remark: "But convoys mean shooting and shooting means...