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...required. One of the defunct forms would have cost one industry alone 400,000 man-hours a year; it would have cost the Government 100,000 more man-hours. As for the "bootleggers," the committee wryly reported that they had been "eliminated" by the beautifully simple "expedient of taking errant mimeograph machines into custody, and providing that no financial reimbursement be allowed for printing . . . or sending unauthorized data requests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Report on Reports | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Performing duties ranging from catching errant footballs to serving hot tea to exhausted coaches, twenty-five Freshmen have been competing, over the past two weeks, for the post of football manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '46 TRIES FOR MANAGER POST | 10/13/1942 | See Source »

...remain steadily faithful to their professorial posts. But Harvard should not decrease in any way the quantity or quality of its educational offerings. It is very important that students today get the best possible education, both to help in national defense and to rebuild the post-war world. The errant scholars should be released entirely from their teaching positions for the duration of the emergency, and men who are willing to be full-time teachers should take over their work. National defense and Harvard would profit by the change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A House Divided | 10/28/1941 | See Source »

...asset of No, No, Nanette which pleased U. S. audiences: the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, containing I Want to Be Happy and Tea for Two. The residue is just a flimsy yarn about a coy and curvesome Miss Fix-it (Miss Neagle) who spends her time extricating an errant uncle (Roland Young) from the grasp of troublesome trollops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...remains as it was. . . . The human instinct for self-preservation is tough and ineradicable. Its patient, long-suffering force seems to keep pace with any historical change, and finally to outlast it." This statement of faith comes easy to Novelist Graf. It comes easier than does facing his own errant, Bohemian part in bringing on the desperate need for this "myth from the dark deep past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Deep Myth | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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