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...exist if it were not itself isolated from reason. . . . [Schroeder] was still making isolationist speeches just before last week's election. Such a stand . . . makes the suggestion of his name an insult to sound Republicanism. ... If the party wished to commit suicide it could hardly do a quicker or more effective job than by placing a Schroeder in command...
...mystified if you hear it this fall; but don't respond to it unless you are very anxious to meet the Dean and can't think of a quicker and better way of doing so. For "Rheinhardt" is the Harvard riot call, and has started such famous rampages as the one in 1936 which wreaked destruction galore on the fair city and fair citizens of Cambridge, not to mention Radcliffe. Its origin, according to the tale, is to be found in the habit of a very lonely young man by that name, who used to go downstairs underneath his window...
...plus side, many a factory manager has found that when women are good they are better than men. They are more painstaking as inspectors, are nimbler with their fingers, don't fret or get bored with repetitious work, are generally quicker, are particularly good in assembling small parts. Feminine dexterity acts as a speedup in many a plant where men are challenged to work harder in competition...
...chemical intricacies of the rubber situation will present little obstale to President Conant, who, prior to his elevation to the presidency of the University, was well known in the chemical world for his work on chlorophyll and plant chemistry, and who during the last war discovered a quicker method of producing Lewisite gas. Assisting President Conant in his duties in Washington will be his private secretary, A. Calvert Smith...
...gassed, only 90,000 were fatalities, and complete recoveries predominated. (Of the 28,000,000 men wounded by other weapons, 8,200,000 died.) And gas is quick and effective, they argue. War's objective is to immobilize the enemy and make him sue for peace. What quicker agent than gas? Some military observers believe the Germans could have won World War I at Ypres on April 22, 1915, when they first introduced gas in large-scale modern combat, when the stunned British and French Colonial troops choked, fell and fled as clouds of chlorine boiled into their trenches...