Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge is made that this nominee's connection with the Acheson-Lilienthal report, covering the problem of physical, atomic controls, disclosed a flaw in his reliability as a guardian of our atomic secrets because this report did not go to a finality in prescribing the ultimate security system demanded by the later Baruch report. It seems to me that this criticism is irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial...
...undergraduate life." Today, with their failure to organize small, departmental discussion groups, to encourage more than the occasional forums held in two of the Houses, in short, to fill in the educational holes caused by a threadbare tutorial system, this "utter disregard" has become more basic than the flaw it was in 1938. It is forcing the first regular postwar class applying for admission to the Houses to do so only on the basis of their merits, not at all as Houses in the prewar sense, but as mere physical plants...
There is, fortunately a basic flaw in his charge, and it can be found in the omnipresence of the word "naivete" in his allegations. If what Professor Elliott says is true--the all Western liberals are hopelessly naive--there can be but little hope for any of us, and certainly no sense in groping forward. The fact is that liberals have ever been called naive, and the fight has not yet been lost. It is just possible, then, that naivete is not as prevalent as Professor Elliott thinks and that the American delegates, having spent a good fraction of their...
...relay isn't what's wrong, although that's what the figures seem to say," remarked Gordon. Just where the tragic flaw fell thrice, however, he refused to state, considering such information of tactical importance. Other channels, nevertheless, report of a very weak breast-stroking staff...
...shot looked backwards. On one three-quarter-inch putt last week, he went through all the footwork and club-positioning that he used on a ten-footer. After a match, he usually retired to Maniac Hill (the practice range) to work on some minor flaw. Ben Hojan seemed to thrive on tension and hard work...