Word: obstructionism
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According to the plan, as announced yesterday by Ray A. Goldberg '48, program director, the network will try to wire both the Yard and the Business School before the end of the term. Lack of money has been the limiting factor so far in plans of this nature, but the...
Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell...
Buchenwald had taught Mayor Doinel of Brunoy that "there are no good Germans." For five months he had blocked the marriage of his fellow townsman, swart Achille Nicolo, who had also returned from German captivity, with a German bride-to-be. But the Mayor could carry obstruction no further. The...
Yells Better. In Montreal, the four-day-old son of Mr. & Mrs. R. F. Yells was operated on for a throat obstruction.
"Though Mr. Taft is an intelligent man, who would always get a high mark in school, he has never acquired sufficient wisdom and understanding. . . . He is probably more responsible than any other single man for leading the Republican Party into blind alleys of dumb obstruction on the vital issues of...