Word: catch-as-catch-can
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...Spartan attitude that the U.S. must suffer for suffering's sake. Last week WPB relaxed again, granted permission to make ten household articles from carpet sweepers to pot cleaners, instructed textile spinners to set aside a certain percentage of yarn for civilians (winter underwear). But these were unsatisfactory, catch-as-catch-can patching attempts...
Charles Townsend Copeland's method of teaching English composition was once described by Walter Lippmann '10 as a "catch-as-catch-can wrestling match." Anyone who interested him was entitled to enjoy "Copey's" friendship and genius. Once or twice every year Copeland still gives a reading to the Freshman class, a highlight in the student's first year at Harvard...
...will get a B priority rating, so that it need not go unfinished. The Office of Production Management also will grant priorities ratings for repairs, so that no existing house will become uninhabitable because of broken plumbing. But for new non-defense housing, contractors will have to rely on catch-as-catch-can methods to get their materials or on their own ingenuity in finding substitutes. Many contractors may be unwilling...
...make much sense in Uruguay." Meantime, while radio's pioneer ringmaster (ten years president of NBC) was readying a comprehensive air program between the U.S. and Latin America, U.S. broadcasters voluntarily came forth with two of their most impressive stunts in ten years of more or less catch-as-catch-can short-waving back & forth across the Rio Grande. Initiated by the two major networks were two series of regular weekly half-hour shows...
...statement that the decrees were a "usurpation of power which has no justification in Law." Niles Trammell saw no sense in such sweeping measures during such critical times, and Bill Paley also gave tongue: "If the Commission succeeds in the venture it now launches, networks will become mere catch-as-catch-can, flyby-night sellers of programs." Only cooperative Mutual said no angry words, and that for a very good reason. Barred till now from many strategic communities by NBC-CBS domination, Mutual hoped to round out its network with stations lopped by the decrees from...