Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grow. The University's primary obligation, they argue, is to maintain its own educational quality unblemished. While history may easily prove this group right about the college's chances of successful expansion, their advocacy of retreat from the problem is unfortunate. Their arguments seem as snobbish as Jonathan Swift's "modest proposal" that poor children be sold and fed to rich children in order lower class incomes. Unfortunately, unlike Swift, they take their argument seriously. They fail to realize, however, that the University can hardly remain a leader in education while ignoring the main educational issue...
...uninitiated, big-game hunting usually connotes Africa and safaris for elephant, lion and swift impala. But the quarry of the U.S. big-game hunter-deer, moose, elk, antelope, bighorn sheep, mountain goat and bear-can provide thrills and challenges to rival anything in Africa. A Montana bull moose 7 ft. tall and weighing more than 1,000 Ibs. is an adequate stand-in for an elephant. A grizzly bear that can charge 100 yds. to maul a rifleman, even after its heart and lungs have been pierced by a bullet from a .30-caliber rifle, is fully as deadly...
...aviation is in a position to carry the heavy capital debt for new jets. In a pinch, U.S. airlines could even make a strong argument to the U.S. Government to stand behind their notes. By so doing, the Government could help build a 200-to 300-plane fleet of swift jet transports for use in an emergency, and do it without a penny's cost to itself...
Reading the column in the Washington Post and Times Herald, Deputy Attorney General Rogers promptly blew up and called Executive Editor Russell Wiggins. Rogers said the story was not true, demanded a swift retraction. After a meeting with Pearson and Rogers, in which Rogers gave the facts and the proof of them, Wiggins told Rogers that he had a "solution." He would have a reporter check up on the story...
...avoid this danger, most companies with formal, paid chaplains make sure that they take no part in formal management-worker problems, that they are there to give aid to troubled people, but not as representatives of the board of directors. At Kansas City's huge Swift & Co. plant, the Rev. Bernard W. Nelson is even paid by the union itself; he works alongside the men in the automotive division as an ordinary worker, and is strictly neutral on union-management squabbles. Yet he is convinced that production is up because of his counseling efforts. Says Baptist Chaplain Nelson: "Whenever...