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Both Welz and Peters consider the end of sophomore year a perfect time to sign, and it is hard to gainsay their decisions. With most pro prospects starting their apprenticeship in the minors around age 18, the Harvard hopefuls would be way behind the game if they waited until their graduation at 22. By playing only in the summers, their progress toward a degree will not be interrupted, and they will get a good idea of their chances of making the majors Both Peters and Welz are interested in graduate work, and if they don't progress in two summers...
...widespread economic difficulties of the Communist bloc. There were economists, of course, who complained that one nation's boom was racing too fast, that another's was losing headway, or that still another's could not continue without strong medicines. But no one could gainsay the fact that most free, industrialized nations stood clear of crucial economic problems-while the Soviet Union's wheat crop failed, Red China's economy continued to falter at bare subsistence levels and Cuba proved a good showcase of how to ruin an economy in a hurry...
...board of death of dead soldiers and dead animals-of dead soldiers in blue, and dead soldiers in grey-more marvellous to me than anything I have ever seen in war-are a ghastly and shocking testimony to the terrible fight of the Second corps that none will gainsay. That corps will ever have the distinction of breaking the pride and power of the rebel invasion...
...heritage, ignores his learning and betrays his obligation. Certain other societies may respect the rule of force-we respect the rule of law . . . No one can deny the complexity of the problems involved in assuring to all our citizens their full rights as Americans. But no one can gainsay the fact that the determination to secure those rights is in the highest traditions of American freedom. In these moments of tragic disorder a special burden rests on the educated men and women of our country-to reject the temptations of prejudice and violence, and to reaffirm the values of freedom...
...exempt from the law which they have administered." Said the Manchester Guardian Weekly: "Behind [the Nűrnberg case] lie the outraged feelings of whole peoples whose memories carry a far heavier load than ours. . . . If they demand a brutal penalty which is yet hopelessly inadequate we may not gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this process which do not sit lightly on a civilized conscience. . . . Certainly, if we had been defeated ... we should have had some difficulty in justifying Hiroshima. . . . There needs to be a consistency between the law of the judges and the conduct...