Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theory behind NDAC was that all personal and philosophical differences would be shelved in the interests of national defense; that labor and industry would lie down with the New Deal. Trouble was the New Deal wouldn't lie down. A political campaign...
...required "a faith as simple and emotional as himself." By Jackson's time the power of the evangelists over the whole Southern mind was so great that "skepticism . . . was anathema, and lack of frenetic zeal was . . . heresy." In such a mind pure hedonism and iron puritanism could lie down together without fighting over the blankets -and without, as Cash repeatedly points out, a trace of conscious hypocrisy. "There was much of Tartarin in this Southerner, but nothing of Tartufe...
...possible, though, jobs for Harvard students would lie along the vocation lines to be chosen by the student. For instance, graduate students would be practically certain to do white collar or research work. A graduate in the sciences might be paid for assisting professors in the laboratories. A Business School student would be given a job in an office...
Future applicants will choose from a range of twelve prices, set at thirty-dollar intervals; in olden days there were twenty-one prices at twenty-dollar intervals. The most luxurious suites will be priced at $420, eighty dollars less than at present. So even the most expensive rooms will lie within reach of moderate incomes. Some such system as the three-fee system recently fixed at Yale would be from the point of view of the House-masters still simpler and thus more desirable. But there is too much variance in the quality of the rooms and the paying ability...
...yielded in the face of an overwhelming assault. But the Visayans and Luzon, with 95% of the Philippines' population (16,356,000) and industry, form a tactical unit. The narrow, treacherous outer passages of the Visayans can be mined, and in protected inner passages light naval craft could lie in relative security between sorties against an invader...