Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opponents of the constitution felt that the process of an election would take too much time. The Union Committee has pressing business to handle right away, and cannot afford to hang fire waiting for the ballotting to end. The election will take time, admittedly, but the first three weeks of the year are lost even under the present appointive system, as far as constructive action is concerned...
Just why students flock to the pinball game is still uncertain. David Myers, a Boston distributor, claims it is because "there is a little larceny in everybody," that the player cannot resist trying to get something for nothing. Another operator says that pinball gives the little man a chance to compete in a game of skill with an athlete. Last year a Social Relations student found that most students claimed they played to "waste time." But the owner of the Holyoke Street grill in which much Harvard pinball activity centers has different ideas. "They give the boys a nice place...
Neither unions nor management are happy under the present system of handling "essential" industries, where the constant threat of injunctions tends to nullify collective bargaining. Yet when strict adherence to the principles of pure collective bargaining imperils the national health or safety, open fights cannot be allowed...
...state. It is a peculiarity of American labor organization which must rather be protected from union abuses than forbidden by law. If unions are to maintain closed shop, they must preserve open membership as regards race, initiation fees, and dues. But the fact remains that forbidding the closed shop cannot be justified in industries where union hiring halls are necessary to handle rotation and seasonal employment, or in consideration of the necessity for demanding more than is wanted where union representatives cannot be sure of solid membership in a plant...
Alfred Korzybski has one burning conviction-that "in the old construction of language, you cannot talk sense." The reason is that because of their Aristotelian thinking habits, which he thinks outmoded, men do not properly evaluate the world they talk about; consequently, words have lost their accuracy as expressions of ideas, if they ever had any to begin with...