Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With special reference to pseudo-intellectualism, flaunting of the discharge button, and sundry other affectations," the discussions was scheduled for February 29. When reached last night, Ernest I. Sly '43 would only say, "The whole idea finks of a filthy plot against the proletariat...
...Tens of millions of people are protected from exploitation only by their illiteracy," he said, "But unless we have more reason to hope that what will be disseminated will be of better quality than we get by pushing a button on a radio today, ought we to help this spread of literacy...
While fall term residents calmly unpacked their oxford-cloth button-downs and knitted ties last night, 17 of the new registrants prepared to bed down in Hemenway Gymnasium where they dreamed of the promise of Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 that they would be in rooms by the end of the month...
...square miles make it the world's largest island and stationary aircraft carrier. It would be as valuable as Alaska during the next few years, before bombers with a 10,000-mile range are in general use. It would be invaluable, in either conventional or push-button war, as an advance radar outpost. It would be a forward position for future rocket-launching sites. In peace or war it is the weather factory for northwest Europe, whose storms must be recorded as near the source as possible...
Last week Moviemaker Pudovkin showed that he at last knew in whose fist the button of Truth reposed. Said he: "The directives of the Central Committee taught us a lot. ... It seems all these conclusions are so simple we should have known them before...