Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the presidency may turn him into a kind of machine with no soul beyond the corporation. Nevertheless, he can't resist the challenge of the job and the temptation of the ever-expanding frontier. Says he: "We talk about Tredway being a big company now. It isn't. . . We have about 3% of the total [market]-that's all, just 3% ... Suppose we get 15% of the total -and why not? . . . That's exactly what we are going...
This is the line we draw, then, Exhott them if you wish, chil them, teach them, and imbue them with as high morale as you can. But forcing undergraduates to center their lives on Shannon Hall, or any step toward that which isn't absolutely indispensable to producing competent officers, is blatantly improper. The least AROTC could do (and what probably would hardly dent the officers club membership, either) is to leave such things to the candidate himself. Only this way can the proper and preceations balance be kept...
Crosby is quick to applaud exceptions in his general picture of electronic idiocy, whether he finds them in scripts for "Duffy's Tavern" or in televised opera. In "Out of the Blue," however, there isn't much applause-- probably because Crosby's catcalls are much more enjoyable...
When the Norfolk Debaters' astounding record is discussed outside, the statement is inevitably made, "Well of course they're good, they have nothing else to do." It turns out that this just isn't so. Bill, the president of the Debaters, carefully explained, "None of our practice is done during state time. That's from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. when we work in the shops. The next hour is usually taken up with some other commitment like choir rehearsal or committee meetings. Dinner is at 5 and we have from 5:30 until lights-out at 10 to work...
...Blockade the Communist coast of Asia -"If the ship isn't operating to the advantage of free men who are dying on Korean ridges, then let the ship be turned back. Or sunk...