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Prospects were likely to be uglier still for later months, as defense demands overleap aluminum production, were not likely to improve much until 1942-43, when Alcoa, Reynolds Metals Co. and Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp. get additional new plants into operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pinch | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...probable that other colleges would see the wisdom of adopting similar measures for the good both of American education and of college football as well. The CRIMSON does not believe it would be advisable to adopt measures too radical or revolutionary. Such measures would be likely to overleap the mark and err by attempting too much. Slow and well-planned progress toward a goal which is clearly seen and understood is the best guarantee of final success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDITORIAL | 12/1/1925 | See Source »

...question is not whether everyone knows everyone else in the University. The question is whether the standards of intimacy are more strict or harder to overleap than at another place. It would be difficult to find any spot east of No Man's Land where no thought is paid to a man' s creed, his intelligence, or his breeding. If such a place were found it is a question whether we should care to go there. A man who has no standards of taste or judgement may well lack standards of anything else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODERN QUIXOTE SPEAKS | 3/19/1917 | See Source »

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