Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relation of the conference groups to the lecture system is a shadowy one which cannot be fixed for the whole College at one blow. The value of a lecturer depends entirely on his presentation: the originality of his material, the effectiveness of his delivery, and the organization of his ideas. If a lecturer is not stimulating on the platform, his talks might just as well be mimeographed and handed out to the class. In any case, the department and the faculty member in charge of each course would have to decide how many lectures and how many conference groups there...
...look. Yes, says Mullen: "Women find time to play bridge, to shop, to go to Ladies' Aid. They'll find time for television." Radio can be turned on and ignored; TV insidiously demands full attention. There are some who believe that TV may deliver the final blow to the art of conversation...
...latest expression of this natural instinct; he concluded that refusal to use the maximum machinery was not only economically silly but downright unnatural. The machine's chief enemy, he argued, was a moss-backed array of old-fashioned institutions and traditions - and he set out to blow them apart. In his first and most fascinating book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), he coldly scrutinized the various ways in which the successful businessman struggled to evade his debt to the very machine which had made him rich...
...their statement, the 46 declared: "The Mundt-Nixon Bill appears to be aimed at restricting the activities of Communists. Its vague and loose phraseology, however, indicates that it threatens the expression of liberal and progressive thought. Its enactment would strike a serious blow at our cherished rights of free expression. We deplore this attempt to restrict American freedoms and urge Congress to defeat the Mundt-Nixon Bill...
...Blow the Whistle. The current fight had begun last fall when all the railroad brotherhoods were agitating for wage increases. Some 1,000,000 workers in 17 non-operating brotherhoods accepted a 15½?-an-hour boost. Two operating brotherhoods with 250,000 members (trainmen and conductors) also accepted the 15½? boost...