Word: cog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in a great while this clip-and-paste system slips a cog. For example, there was the week a Medicine story on dipsomaniacs got mixed up with a Science story on fish. Our sailors overseas must have gotten quite a kick out of reading about drunken smelts. ("The mysterious malady that all but wiped out the Great Lakes smelts is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons. But a few hardy ones survive...
...will not sacrifice that principle for personal safety. Should others? I sometimes wonder if America's legislators, its labor leaders, its industrialists, its occasional absentee defense workers, its sometimes selfishly pleasure-seeking civilians ever realize that . . . their maintenance of a solid fighting home front is as important a cog on the wheel of success as those facing the dive-bombers...
Diver Ralph Buratti, barrel-chested Junior from New Brunswick, won the low board diving, but finished second from the higher board on Saturday night to Princeton's Connie Doran. Breast stroker Chuck Gantner, who butterflies all the way, was the main cog in the Scarlet's medley relay victory, and he edged Tiger Norm Zheutlin in the 200-yard breast stroke...
...were indeed bits of derring-do in the field of business training. It introduced the case system, which tries to give men an idea of the innumerable industrial activities they can eventually engage in. It offered courses in human problems in industrial management, thereby discouraging a purely mechanistic, little-cog-in-a-big-machine approach to Big Business. And, the School sought to demonstrate to the fledglings that their responsibility was to their government as well as to their company. Visitors who came to look in on the new methods found classrooms concerned with public administration in addition to such...
Former Freshman and Varsity player Gershon Ross was the main cog in the Puritan offense, setting up the first touch-down with a long a end sweep in the first quarter and passing to right end Larry Corbett for the second score. Larry Goodale kicked the extra point after the first touchdown, which was scored by Ralph Davenport on a line buck...