Word: hardheadedness
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Last week Yale's hardheaded Law Dean Ashbel Green Gulliver bluntly warned law schools that they would be forced to merge or close. "It's a hard thing to recommend," said he, "but I think it is inevitable."
Significant Fact: Hardheaded, practical Bill Short, whose idea it was, is past president of the Washington State Federation of Labor and a former coal miner who was educated to golf and country-club life through his dickerings with businessmen on wages & hours problems.
The Beautiful Bums. Then he moved in on Brooklyn, whose seventh-place Dodgers were in hock to the Brooklyn Trust Co., creditor for half a million dollars. MacPhail-who is never better than when talking hardheaded characters out of important sums-actually sweet-talked the Brooklyn Trust Co. into putting...
While the can't-do-it experts dug up more reasons why Henry J. Kaiser can't possibly build cargo planes, the big West Coast engineer found a sure-we'll-do-it partner. To his aid, on a 50-50 basis, came enormously wealthy, enormously successful...
Against such defenses, the typical blitz-the quick shock, the breakthrough, the spearing advance by planes, tanks and mobile artillery, then the followup by infantry-will not serve as it did in Poland, in the Lowlands, in Russia's first months. Now, in depth and thorough preparation, the Russian...