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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feat more impressive than the world record of 1:34! set by Equipoise at Arlington Park in 1932. In Australia, horses are timed from a standing start, whereas U.S. horses get a five-or six-jump run at the starting pole. The greatest race Shannon ever ran, he lost. That day, he got left at the post by 60 yards and then put on a magnificent charge and barely failed to win in 1:36. Making allowances for his poor start, horsemen estimate that he ran the mile...
...president and the grand seigneur of U.S. education. He was an erect and lofty gentleman, who "always had a fight on my hands," and who could be both imperious and impatient in waging it. "Do you suppose," an awed acquaintance once whispered to a colleague, "that anyone has ever called him Charley...
...Undisciplinables. It was certainly the golden age of Harvard philosophers-and the greatest of them all was William James. He had wandered from art to medicine, to psychology ("The first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave"), and then finally to philosophy. He was forever reading the books of unknown authors, or listening to the lectures of his juniors, lest he overlook some undiscovered genius. He detested "educated cleverness in the service of popular idols and vulgar ends." As a teacher, he preferred thinkers of another sort: "Our undisciplinables are our proudest product...
...hall. Then Copey would enter, order the doors to be locked, spend minutes adjusting his lamp, listen disdainfully for the audience to swallow its coughs, and finally begin. Over the years, those readings became a Harvard institution-long after Copey began to feel old ("Do you suppose I am ever to be well again? You must remember that I am 63 . . ."), and long after he retired ("I am 82 years old-God damn...
While some companies had shown "admirable restraint" in holding down prices, others had raised prices more than justified by increased costs. Therefore, "business should give careful and thoughtful consideration to the inflationary effect of large profits and unreasonably high prices." Although the economy was turning out more than ever, "more and cheaper consumer services" are still needed. "As long as these needs exist, we should not worry about having a 'mature' economy. We still have a frontier to push forward." When it was over, one delegate commented: "This was a damn good speech. I say that...