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...board's majority report announced, in explanation: "We are fully aware that this decision looks in the direction of a general policy." While vague, this gobbledygook could not honestly be considered incomprehensible. Presumably, the board would not want any of its decisions looking around in vain, and when decision looked in the direction of policy, policy would look burningly back in the direction of decision. Or in other words, we don't mean to be starting something...
Some professors of economics may share the lady's feelings, when they approach such Goodwin articles as "The Multiplier as Matrix," ("in which I generalize Keynes' 'General Theory'"), or "Secular and Cyclical Aspects of the Multiplier and Accelerator." In vain they look for things familiar in a maze of matrices, mechanisms, and differential equations. The uninitiated must turn skeptic, or search not scattered passages written, for backward readers, in English...
...Staff Douglas MacArthur assigned him to Chicago as senior instructor of the Illinois National Guard. Marshall for the first time in his career protested the assignment. "George had a grey, drawn look which I had never seen before," recalled Mrs. Marshall. Pershing is said to have complained in vain to Franklin Roosevelt, but the assignment stood...
Willie McGee, convicted of rape, was electrocuted early this morning after three Eliot House residents had made a long-distance call to Mississippi Governor Fielding Wright in a vain effort to obtain a pardon for the condemned...
...massive drive across the Imjin River, near Uijongbu, the Chinese managed to isolate the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.* For three days, their comrades tried in vain to relieve the Gloucesters. With most of their ammunition gone, the Gloucesters' commanding officer ordered his men to break out any way they could. Maurice ("Mike") Harvey, a slim, spectacled young captain, was one of the few who made...