Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Equipment for playing these records presents a confused mess of odd gagdets. A curved pickup arm cannot be used with both records because of the tracking error mentioned above. If an arm is designed to minimize the tracking error on a twelve-inch record, that error would be very great on a seven-inch record. Also, there is not yet any quality player for Victor records. The poor needle cartridge in Victor's player negates most of the quality advantage of the record...
...Taft and Hill proposals utilize "voluntary" plans such as the Blue Cross. They would advance federal grants to the states to pay for those who cannot afford the premiums. Truman's Fair Deal medicine is much more far reaching. It would apply to everyone in the Social Security system, at least 85,000,000 persons. An additional 3% payroll tax would pay for it, 1 1-2% from the employee, 1 1-2% from the employer...
Rewards & Quests. As an example of failure, Bell cites the modern college freshmen as he sees them. "They cannot look at a thing and tell you what they see; listen to sounds and know what they hear; by the touch truly perceive form; sense how others feel and why; read, write, speak with any sure knowledge of how words are to be handled . . . think in general terms as distinct from specific and concrete particulars...
...winds would disperse it. But Los Angeles' upper air, instead of getting progressively cooler at higher levels, has a peculiar temperature inversion. There is a warm layer, usually at 1,000 to 3,000 ft., which sits on the smog. Prevailing winds from the Pacific High cannot readily blow the heavy cloud away to the east because of the mountains which half ring the city...
...diplomacy is a superb combination of tact and inexorable firmness. While never forgetful of the President's constitutional limitations, Churchill also never forgets that such limitations might well prove fatal. "The President should bear . . . very clearly in mind," he instructs British Ambassador Lord-Lothian, that the U.S. cannot afford "any complacent assumption . . . that they will pick up the debris of the British Empire . . ." His own remarks to Roosevelt are sometimes genially humble ("I am so grateful to you for all the trouble you have been taking . . ."), sometimes confidently flattering ("I am sure that, with your comprehension...