Word: crux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounding board is an essential feature of the managerial revolution. "With occasional petty rebellions," Congress, he notes, has sunk "lower and lower as sovereignty shifted from the parliament toward the bureaus and agencies. ... By 1940, it was plain that Congress no longer possessed even the war-making power, the crux of sovereignty. The Constitutional provision could not stand against the structural changes in modern society and in the nature of modern war: the decisions about war and peace had left the control of the parliament...
...infant anatomy or behavior, but the President's ignorance of modern diaper service, was the crux of the story...
...crux of the election lies in the coal-mining districts of Pennsylvania. Unless John L. Lewis can swing enough votes to give Willkie the state, the election is in the bag for Roosevelt." This is the opinion of Government Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06, chief political seer of the Faculty...
...went on to point out that the athletic endowment fund started in 1935 would eventually do away with the crux of the whole problem of "bigtime" football--gate receipts. This fund, which is being swelled every year through gifts by the University and alumni and by H.A.A. surpluses, has in five years passed the $400,000 mark and already yields $13,000 annually in interest...
...King's personal physician Lord Horder (chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Shelters) summed up last week some of the basic problems with which the King's Ministers were grappling. "The crux of the problem is overcrowding," said Lord Horder. "The Government has the choice between dispersal and the provision of more shelters. But these two courses are not alternatives: both should be taken...