Word: boomerangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find out if our poll is accurate. That is to conduct a poll of your own. We believe that such a poll would confirm our findings. If, however, we were proved wrong, we would welcome the correction. Since our poll was not intended as a "weapon," it could not "boomerang." Our aim was to find the truth. If we have failed in that it remains for others to do a better job. We have facts to back up our conclusion; when you make charges, the burden of proof...
...scientific methods might be. If the report as a whole had shown any startling devotion to truth, this hedging might perhaps be overlooked; but when it is coupled with other examples of distortion, it assumes greater importance. If this poll is any sort of a weapon, it is a boomerang. And if all those opposed to American intervention in the present war are "radicals, cynics, and pacifists," then the editors of Defense have laid an egg in their own hen-house...
...more or less freely interpret those rules. This forces the student to experiment and see how much leeway he can take. He is told that he has "unlimited cuts, as long as his marks are kept up,"; but he usually finds that this concession acts as a boomerang, since his marks won't "keep up" if he starts cutting. The led who would cut the most times without lowering his mark must first know the written or understood course rules on the subject, and then find out how his section man feels about it. Admittedly, this is the wrong attitude...
Timothy Dwight's eleven rolled up a 13-0 victory over Adams to clinch the Harvard-Yale House championship on Friday afternoon. The Gold Coasters had banked heavily on their passing attack, and when Yale interceptions turned it into a boomerang, were forced to rely on their weaker running plays...
...biggest mess of the campaign and then stepped in it themselves. Charging the Democrats with running a campaign of innuendo, the Baltimore Sun declared: "This sort of thing cannot go much further before even the heavy thinkers responsible for it will begin to see that it is a boomerang...