Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplies all major recognized charities, local, national, and foreign; since all of us have been polled to determine the allocation of funds; since the Service Fund makes possible the valuable work that is done within the College; and since we are all members of a single College Community, we feel that every man in the College should make some contribution, no matter how large or small...
...from the sort of education they deserve, the colleges should move immediately to abandon the artificial distinction. They have examples of the feasibility of such a change. Stanford has gotten along without insisting on the choice system. So has Dartmouth, a college not noted, incidentally, for undergraduates who feel they would be happier at some other school...
...unfailing puzzle to the working members of the press ... why so many otherwise solid ... dental appliance mechanics, casket designers ... and scooter salesmen should feel a compulsion to aver 'You know, I used to be a newspaper man myself once.' Usually, it turns out that the man covered hockey for the Harvard Crimson, and is now earning his ulcers as a radio account executive...
Blades for Strawberries. Gillette's new President Spang was a real salesman, all right. Under Spang, Gillette tied up the radio rights on most big sports events, was thus able to talk ("Look Sharp! Feel Sharp! Be Sharp!") to a shaving audience. Spang dropped the company's electric shaver because it competed with the more profitable blade business, added shaving cream to the line of products, followed up advertising with hard-hitting merchandising. Gillette's net income increased from $2,941,890 in 1938 to $10,501,448 last year. This year the company's main...
...documents what was plain even to armchair admirals at the start of the war: that neither Britain nor the U.S. was ready for the U-boats. Readers will feel their hackles rise as Morison shows how close Nazi Admiral Doenitz came to wiping out the supply line from the U.S. to Britain. In the first 6½ months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy sank just eight subs (the Germans were building that many every ten days); the subs sank 360 merchant ships...