Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instances such as the CRIMSON's use of the term may easily be pointed out as examples of a "Western Superiority" attitude by non-Caucasian peoples. We feel that a newspaper organization which represents Harvard should be sufficiently discerning to prevent such unfortunate, although unintentional, references from appearing in its articles. Chae Chu Chi '52 James Bouzoukis '52 William Vasquez...
...what is bad for all of us ... Government decides what is and what is not restraint of trade for business, but very carefully avoids deciding what is or what is not restraint of trade when applied to labor unions and other political blocs. "Do not think that the use of this power is only sought by bureaucrats, or by those who would travel the last mile to socialism. When Averell Harriman was Secretary of Commerce he told me that I would be amazed at the number of so-called rugged industrialists, business leaders, who trooped...
...American soda fountain is disgraceful ; anyone who has ever smelled the midsummer-night stink of a sloppy soda fountain−decayed hamburger, sour milk, mustard and vanilla−can never forget it. The same goes for a telephone booth. Must one be crowded into a cramped, unventilated closet, use a mouthpiece which has been breathed into by thousands of people? Why not a two-way loudspeaker instead? Lincoln Steffens advised his son, who was worrying about what remained to be done, that nobody had yet made a faucet that didn't leak. Well, it no longer leaks...
...hockey team will use these classes to get itself into condition prior to the start of regular practice...
While it is true that the Association has a program, and expects endorsed candidates to vote for it when elected, as long as the CCA continues to use honest vote-getting methods there need be no fear of a return to corrupt machine political. Organization members, representing all political, racial and religious segments of Cambridge, choose the platform, and like any other political group, seek a favorable majority in the government to back...