Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must experiment until he finds the right combination. But he is tackling the problem in the same way Valpey did: he is starting with fundamentals Besides the regular batting practice for every man, he is giving individual instruction in bunting and sliding, with particular emphasis on the latter. The pitchers are still in the late stages of limbering...
Many of his most difficult jobs remain unknown to the veterans they concern. Monro like to think of himself as a "shock-absorber" between the well-intentioned but sometimes confusing directives of Uncle Sam and the individual veteran. He tries not to disturb the latter too often with forms-in-triplicate or progress questionnaires...
...different types of sections--for concentrators and non-concentrators. Non-concentrator sections have eliminated such subjects as analysis of theory by graphs and have added four weeks of "prospects for economic progress under capitalism." These sections differ from the General Education course, Economics for the Citizen, in that the latter emphasizes the application of economics to current problems...
...fiction pieces in the issue, "The Gooks" seemed a better job than Dennis Fodor's dialogue story. The former is a fine study of its three soldier principals, with restrained dialogue and subtle development; the latter is too glib, too flashy in dialogue without the insights and basings necessary for a competent story. This comparison is not intentional nor malicious, but successive reading of the two stories brings out rather sharply that what is good in one is the chief failing of the other...
...unliquidated portions of the empire. Whenever it tried to make socialists shoulder the white man's burden, something had gone wrong. Out under the never-setting sun, one of the socialist governors turned more blimpish than Colonel Blimp. Another took his socialist mission a bit too seriously. The latter was Oliver Ridsdale, Earl Baldwin, the socialist son of the late Stanley Baldwin...