Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to create a symbol of world unity, a flag common to all nations is the most effective solution. To that end, I suggest that the U.N. promote the idea of a United Nations Flag, to be displayed wherever & whenever the member states of this organization meet. Surely a "world flag" symbolizing world unity is preferable to a number of national flags which will always recall the diversity (and controversy) rather than the "oneness" of the world. No national flag should have "priority" in man's world-consciousness...
Several ways to restore the carrot suggest themselves. Any form of payment by results works in the right direction. So does any attempt to preserve the margins of income that can be secured by greater skill or experience -and it is the real margin, after taxation, that counts. ... It will only lead to disaster to pretend that ordinary human beings are angels or philosophers (of either the Marxist or the Spencerian professions). . . . Even in the 20th Century, most of them are more like donkeys driven by desire for gain or fear of hunger...
...were in a position to use his own discretion in a final decision. He contradicted this stand by declaring that his hands were tied by the policy of a Faculty committee, which happened, for the most part, to be away on vacation. In no event did he suggest any further recourse among University Hall administrators, nor imply anything but that he was the highest authority present. Subsequent information has proved that there was indeed a higher, and willing, authority...
...suggest that we try to 'conscript for sport.' America has always believed in specialization and has done everything to encourage any outstanding youth. France has come into line, using great athletes as directors [i.e., at paid jobs...
...Evan Shute did not forget it. Last summer, when a colleague asked him to suggest a research project for a bright young medical student, Floyd Skelton, Shute suggested tests for the effectiveness of vitamin E against hemorrhage. At the University of Western Ontario Skelton set to work on his class-free Saturday afternoons, with a modest grant of $150 and laboratory privileges from his alma mater. He soon discovered that dogs given stiff jolts of vitamin E would not have hemorrhages...