Word: glut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observes Columbia's Law Dean Young B. Smith, eyeing the G.I. Bill of Rights uneasily: "A university is under the obligation to give general education to as many as possible, but the professional schools ought not to train more than the profession can absorb. [A glut of lawyers] creates unemployment and frustrated desires. . . . It would be mistaken patriotism to train too many. . . . A disappointed lawyer is just smart enough to make trouble for everybody. He is likely to become a sourbelly and a revolutionary...
...rest of the book, Stalin's career, from the Bolshevik coup d'etat of 1917 to his final ousting of Trotsky, suffers from a glut of documents, letters, telegrams, secret official papers and memoranda. Only Trotsky, a superb pamphleteer, who is practically incapable of writing badly, could have made his insistent exegesis readable...
...Europe. . . . France is better off than England, and Italy infinitely better off than France. [Even in England] I found it possible to eat well and cheap in London, Canterbury and other English towns. I found a similar situation in Paris. . . . One may go from restaurant to restaurant and glut oneself even in London...
...many soap operas glut the daytime hours. The two largest networks, NBC and CBS, carry some 40 between them. Once, in 1940, 55 of the 59½ daytime hours a week were filled with twittering throbbers. Polling U.S. homes, FCC found that during soap-opera hours 76.8% of available listeners had their sets turned...
...Cuba for the next ten years. And Cuba cannot be blamed for wanting that. She knows that if she does not cash in on a long-term deal now, when there is a world sugar shortage, she will lose out. Before many years the shortage may turn into a glut and sugar may drop to 1.8? a pound, as it did after World...