Word: setup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeds" of my illustration...referred not to New Deal measures, but to other corporations and the general capitalist setup in the Tennessee Valley and elsewhere, among which TVA would have to try to flourish. I was pointing out some of the very difficulties-they have since been made abundantly obvious-which lie in the way of piecemeal planning for the production of power which must be used either by competing corporations or impoverished individuals in a capitalist community...
...when some of the amateur "bookies" were taking bets on the New Hampshire game, one betting financier refused to give better than 5-4 odds on the Wildcats' chances of winning. What a change in football history that is! Shades of those days when Brown was the pre-Yale setup and the whole "A" team left Cambridge to watch the Yale-Princeton encounter, confident that back in Cantabrigia the subs would be able to run the Bruins off the field...
...Hampshire, which succeeded in scoring on Dartmouth last Saturday, may not be the entire setup that was expected; but since Tufts defeated it by the overwhelming score of 26-0 two weeks ago, Harvard should have no difficulty in coming...
These are probably two of the main defects with the present setup at Soldiers Field, and they go deep into the fundamentals of the game. For the ineffectiveness of the ground attack should not, as it might at first seem, be rung up solely against the men who carry the ball. More than half of the blame rests on the line's slowness and lack of power in charging and the guard's equal slowness in running interference. Even Jack Buckler of the Army wouldn't have been a world-beater last Saturday if his frontiersmen hadn't been opening...
...nation-wide setup not unlike Upton Sinclair's EPIC, whereunder the unemployed would make commodities for consumption by the unemployed. Such a program would probably be cheaper than the dole-and-relief work but it has two main disadvantages: a) economically it might tend to throw some workers in private enterprise out of their jobs; b) politically it would arouse a storm of conservative opposition from manufacturers who feel the pinch of direct government competition...