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Obviously improvement in human efficiency implies advance in intelligence. And as intelligence increases, capacity for unhappiness increases. Men who are capable of high efficiency rebel against spending their lives screwing on bolt 13 or hammering nail 127. A thinking man is happy if he is working toward some goal which he can reasonably hope to attain. The prospect which greater efficiency holds out to the intelligent worker is the possibility of becoming a more nearly perfect cog in the system which he already hates. By what strange stretch of the imagination, can one call this making workers happier? Indeed...
Precedent tumbled about his ears? but the audience was pleased. The police refrained from intervention. No bolt fell from Heaven. No harm appears to have come of the episode...
Brookhart's Bolt. For some days, Republicans in Iowa heard sappers. They sat tight in their trenches and waited for the explosion of the mine. They knew that part of the earth under their feet was unsteady. Last week, the explosion came-and the Republicans counterattacked to make the best of what was for them a bad business...
...representatives of the Republican Party in Iowa elected through the medium of the primary, submit to the Republican voters of the State that the repudiation of the Republican nominees by Senator Brookhart is a repudiation of and a bolt from the Republican Party...
...jury will sit for months upon furniture from Michigan. Earnest debates will only be interrupted long enough to bolt down meals prepared with advertised ingredients. That schoolgirl complexion will fade, and unkempt beards, which would defy, the most formidable blade, will hide the beauty of late model collars...