Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hire a man for one hour, say to load a truck, and pay him one dollar-I must collect from him one cent-discover his full name-his Social Security number-and make an individual report on the deal at the end of the six-month period...
...getting tired of supporting a bunch of politicians' relatives in bookkeeping jobs under the present plan. If they must have jobs, let them come up here and make a census of the wild life of our fair country...
...with his statements that morons and imbeciles are on the increase among us, that man's meddling with nature has been detrimental to his own evolutionary status, there is no quarrel. But when he says: "the quality of any individual mind is probably inherent and immutable," that, "we must improve man before we can perfect his institutions and make him behave," that, "the human improvement required is primarily biological," he is talking nonsense. Or, rather, he is talking like that flower of our higher institutions of learning, a college professor...
...would-be fiction writer, I've made analogies between writing and painting. No Supreme Court, thank God, imposes upon us a blind followance of the rules of grammar. Similarly, no Hitler decrees that all painters must draw in perspective. Grammar and perspective are tools, not ends: they must be used, not worshipped. No writer wants his story to be merely schoolteacherish grammar. No painter wants his picture to be merely good architectural perspective. Both writer and painter do have a common purpose: the writer, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the reader; the painter, to amuse, to shock...
Sullivan and Grubbs deplored the tremendous grant of arbitrary power to a board of three men without judicial qualifications, pointing out that a small board must necessarily be swamped by the terrific burden of work...