Word: cons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denying labor's argument, David Con-cannon, industry member of the War Labor Board, declared that "industry should not and will not gamble on depleting its resources by granting wage rises; it would not be fair to our investors, to the public, or to the workers themselves...
...Teach the Heart." During con versation-less meals in the peaceful refec tory they listen to reading selected "to teach the heart [and] the intellect." At day's end (8:30 p.m.), with the words, "the Divine help remain with us always, Amen," they begin the Great Silence which (except for words of worship) lasts until after breakfast the next morning...
...said he, the fault was not UNRRA's. He blamed the governments of nations which "still have what to the famished people of liberated Europe must seem like the wild est sort of luxury." And these govern ments were not living up to their commitments. Describing the complete con fusion into which UNRRA's supply posi tion had fallen, Lehman said: "Availabilities change hour by hour and it is now practically impossible to plan any long-range program and fulfill it." Unless sacrifices were made, he implied, the win ter's "fateful deadline" might well bring starvation...
...permanent program, Yale this week sets up a system which will let bright students graduate in three years. The brightest (to be called the Scholars of the House) may be admitted to a new experi ment in which, after two years of a "con trolled curriculum" (i.e., no electives), they will be allowed to branch out in much the manner of graduate students, study whatever they want, earn degrees on the basis of a thesis and a long oral examination...
Chlanna nan con, thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil!* Not since 1745 has this most ferocious of Scottish battle cries sent a chill through England's Border region. But last week the horrors of a porridge famine threatened Scotland. The British War Office commandeered all available oatmeal stocks to feed liberated Europe. Said the London Daily Mail with massive understatement: "Protests are likely...