Word: haystacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War II the British are taking no chances of missing the useful needle among the preposterous straws of the haystack. In the Ministry of Supply an Invention Board has been set up to collect and consider, not only ideas submitted directly to Government departments, but also those sent to manufacturers, who have found their influx of suggestions quadrupled since the war started. Some British ideas...
...Chiang Kaishek, though still hardly more than an ambitious warlord, was beginning to make his people realize that yellow skin was not necessarily synonymous with low estate. The Russians, to promote world revolution, were also urging a China for Chinese. The country burst into fire from within, like a haystack with...
...Kaishek, symbol of the belated unification of China. For two years this perambulating symbol who travels fearlessly by plane over the mountains and deserts of his country has evaded capture from in front and assassination and bribery (old-Asiatic tools) from behind. Chiang is the needle in the greatest haystack in history...
...loving Moran once set himself to find a needle in a haystack (time: 82 hours, 35 minutes); sold an icebox to an Eskimo; peddled advertising for display on barbershop ceilings...
...American people's faith in education as a cure-all is misplaced. Reasons: education is 1) an institutional straitjacket, 2) too slow. "This great faith in gradualness . . . assumes what may be called the haystack theory of social problems, that is, that our culture confronts a fixed quantum of problems which are being slowly carted away by 'progress,' each load reducing the total awaiting removal. Actually, however, the culture appears to be piling up problems faster than the slow horse-and-haywagon process of liberal change through education and reform is able to dispose of them...