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...with the booming voice refuted the story at the Yale swimming carnival of 1948 when he abruptly leaped into the pool, swam its width to resounding cheers. Once he went to the bottom of the pool in a diving helmet for a fish-eye view, quickly corrected a flaw in the stroke of one of his swimmers...
Economists have long known that the gross national product, the nation's No. 1 economic growth indicator, has a serious flaw. It does not allow for inflation. When prices and production are both swooping up, the G.N.P. greatly overstates the rate of growth of the U.S. economy. When production sags, it understates the drop, since prices tend to hold up. To counteract these price distortions, the Commerce Department brought out a new indicator. Henceforth, along with the regular quarterly G.N.P. expressed in dollars of current value, the department will publish a G.N.P. showing what the actual change would have...
...merchantmen against German submarines.* When Wilson called the Senate into extraordinary session, an outraged majority, led by Montana's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Walsh, imposed a rule under which debate could be ended by two-thirds of the Senators voting. But the new rule had a fatal flaw: it provided a method for cloture on any Senate measure-but not on a motion to consider the measure. That meant a motion to consider any bill or resolution could be endlessly filibustered. In 1949 Senate liberals put up a hard fight to get a workable cloture rule. The result...
...fact that Corinth's instincts were always poetic makes his flaw particularly lamentable. Shimizu might take his cue. When Corinth does a watercolor like The Beautiful Imperia, a loose wash of lucid color, he arrives at a quality which most of his Teutonic contemporaries generally lack--a naive loveliness, (the word used wholly in complimentary fashion.). The same goes for Susanna and the Elders or Imperial Palace. But when he draws, or tries to draw, his linear Knight, the result is nothing short of inexcusable...
...greatest flaw of modern civilization is its inability to "feel" and "imagine," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, told a University of Minnesota audience Sunday...