Word: group
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This brings into focus clearer than ever the question of What should be the relation between private and public companies. Each group is very vociferous in defending its side of the problem...
...Trapezoidal means like a trapezoid, or two sides parallel," William V. H. Mason '51, spokesman for the group, said. Actually it's trapeziform, or trapezate, like a trapezium, or no sides parallel...
...executive, who is primarily a rugged individualist, must crush his ego for group decisions "in order to be one of the boys." Said Dr. Slight: "Thus the aggressive vitality drive that makes the executive ambitious is thwarted, and it must go somewhere, so it goes inside, producing diarrhea, headaches, blurring of vision ringing in the ears," and ultimately ulcers,* high blood pressure, or both...
...organizational meeting of the newly-formed Biological Society will be held at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Large Lecture Hall of the Biology Laboratory. The group will elect officers and adopt a constitution...
...Wore a Yellow Ribbon" makes John Wayne a cavalry captain who has to worry about a group of hostile Indians. Except for a few stray arrows and an occasional ambush, he successfully avoids any major bloodshed through the entire movie, and is accordingly promoted to Colonel at the end. To this reviewer's way of thinking, this lack of a climactic large-scale gun-fight (Ford substituted a middle-scale stampede) is perfectly reasonable; any cavalry captain who would deliberated take on 2000 Arapahoes armed with Winchesters is a foolish man indeed...