Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given up. The three-day week had saved him from a possible Taft-Hartley injunction, would keep the rank & file quiet and keep the coal stockpile down to a size where he might be able to use a coal shortage as a bargaining weapon. Lewis had also gained time in which to try to divide management by making separate agreements-a strategy which Phil Murray had used successfully against the steel industry. He badly needed...
Last week, as Thomas sailed contentedly back to the good old U.S.A. on the Queen Elizabeth, there could be no doubt that he had given whole nations in Europe a deeper insight into the manners and mental processes of the American legislator...
...Europeans were given ample evidence that the U.S. Congressman is a man who 1) smokes cigars and seems to be searching subconsciously for a cuspidor, 2) is a ferociously accurate judge of whisky, but is incredibly naive about the countries he visits, and 3) emits a regular flow of outrageous quotes aimed at the voter back home...
...also stand responsible for what it voluntarily permits organizations to do on their own. Not only does this make the functions of the Dean's Office impracticably complex, it also is an intolerable limitation on the rights of students, who can only learn to hear responsibilities if they are given the opportunity to deal with complex problems on their own. For the Dean's Office to handle these problems instead of the students cuts down tremendously the educational value of undergraduate activities...
Recent action by the Social Relations Department in suppressing irresponsible undergraduate polling has raised larger issues of the growing responsibilities of social science. Infant branches of learning, before they reach maturity, are sometimes given to extravagant claims and methods in an effort to win a place in the sun of public recognition. Only age brings tentative wisdom to eager disciples of new faiths...