Word: using
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of Harvard professors are members of an unofficial group of advisers to Senator John F. Kennedy '40. The group, which was organized last year by Earl G. Latham, visiting lecturer on government, prepares positions on public issues for the use of the Senator's office in establishing his own final stand...
...parodies had been sold on Bowl grounds when the confiscation occurred, and he asserted that the police action had seriously marred the expedition, "probably taking all the profit out of it." However, he said no effort would be made to recover the confiscated copies, since they would be of use only as "waste paper...
Kluckhohn pointed out that all relations between groups of people are accompanied by coercion and that social life without sanctions is impossible. The use of force is assumed to be the ultimate means of preserving the vital interests of a group, even when this force is total destruction, Kluckhohn said. "We now need an innovation, some kind of acceptable sanction that doesn't involve human life," he declared...
Graphite, the substance in lead pencils, is a form of carbon that has long been one of the most useful minerals in the scientific laboratory and in industry. It is soft enough to be a good dry lubricant; its high heat resistance makes it a good material for crucibles and as a moderator in nuclear reactors. In the new age of rocketry, scientists have eyed it for use in rocket nozzles or in nose cones, which must resist the heat of reentry. But ordinary graphite has two faults: it is permeable to gases and is structurally so weak that...
...eight-hour day, pay them for overtime as other industries do-and insist on an honest day's work. Says he: "It would be up to the railroads to schedule things so that there wouldn't be much deadheading. The burden would be on the railroads to use their work force wisely...