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William A. Heaman, manager of the Dining Halls, admitted yesterday that the size of the separating partitions on the new trays had caused many complaints. Students have praised the efficient designing of the new product but have added that this one tragic flaw prevents the trays from being a complete success...
According to Green, he and his partners had done nothing outside the law. He was shocked when North Carolina's mild-mannered Congressman Herbert Bonner pointed out a flaw in Green's operations: he had failed to pay a 5% excise tax in his multimillion-dollar operation. The Philippine deal "stinks," said Bonner. It may not be illegal, he added, but it is "morally terrible ... We are in this one to stay for a while...
...present studied almost entirely from the non-religious point of view. The anthropological, the psychological, and the philosophical points of view are all represented, but not the specifically religious. It is arguable, therefore, that the absence of a course taught from this point of view is a flaw in the curriculum, and that there should be such a course at Harvard...
...portralt of Cowperwood as a typical "Robber Baron" partly fails, according to Matthiessen, as a result of the same flaw in the writer's attitude which Paul Elmer More later stiffly denied as "an oscillation between a theory of evolution which sees no progress save the survival of the rapaciously strong and a humanitarian feeling of solidarity with the masses who are exploited in the process...
...Thaw Flaw. Cotton men thought the market would stabilize again if a big new crop comes in. After all, they said, cotton was uncontrolled during World War II and rose only 3? a lb. Mike DiSalle spotted the flaw in that argument: during the war there was a cotton surplus: now there is a shortage...