Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paper or no paper, Jaakko Mikkola and Carl Olsen, who coach the '52s, both say that the outcome at Hanover will be "very close." "My golly, there's a lot of fight in those boys," Jaakko exclaims, adding that the freshmen could...
When the question was put to Valpey, Art stated that he was definitely impressed with Loewenstein and could probably use him for spot work next fall. Of course, if Cal should report on September 1 weighing, say, 165, it might be an altogether different story...
...purely competitive mechanisms. But farmers have shown an appalling ignorance of classical economic theory by failing to "leave the industry" in depressed times. Ever since 1920, there have been more farmers in the country than farming needs. Some people argue that subsidy plans prolong this disequilibrium; others say that government regulation of farming is necessary to make the farmer's life tolerable and that the disquilibrium would never end anyway...
...Hard Knowledge. Van Doren's contribution to the subject of Hawthorne thus amounts to an impressive, if interrupted, essay on what Hawthorne had to say and how successfully he said it. That contribution could have been greater if Van Doren had 1) thrown away the biographical passages, or 2) fastened his attention on the man Hawthorne really...
...Boston paper led its story with, "Exciting new history is being written with blood," and went on to say, "Just what the isolation of living white blood cells will turn up, scientists cannot predict at this time. But. . . one important use may be the introduction of living white blood cells into the bloodstream f a patient under treatment for cancer...