Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateurs in last week's U.S.G.A. Public Links championship were the pick of a fierce breed of golfers who inhabit the nation's 1,800 public courses; they carry their own clubs, fight for fairway rights, and have little or no time to worry about the more genteel aspects of what is sometimes regarded as a genteel game. In their zest for the title, some of last week's competitors just missed beating their opponents over the head with mashie niblicks...
Though he would rather write about batons than bats, Cardus thinks that cricket expresses, in microcosm, the whole English character. "If everything else in this nation of ours were lost but cricket," he writes, "it would be possible to reconstruct [from it] all the eternal Englishness which has gone to the establishment of [the] Constitution and the laws...
...uninterrupted complex of impotence. An exasperating procession of wheelbarrows, heavy with the earth of reality, struggling up toward the inaccessible heaven of the ecstasy of love, at the summit of which there is only a precipice-love in death and death in love . . ." Only the New Statesman and Nation had the wit to smile at such Daliance and say the sanest thing heard in the hubbub: "How odd that people should have taken Mad Tristan ... so seriously...
...almost half of the nation's 98 biggest production centers, unemployment had already mounted to 7% or more of the local population. "In some cases it has become an acute problem," reported Employment Security Director Robert C. Goodwin. "The labor market has fluctuated since last November . . . largely [toward] higher rates of unemployment...
...From a line in one of his poems, which was inspired by the ancient legend: "As the vibration of one branch may be felt through the forest, so the influence of one man may rouse a nation from apathy...