Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Harvard rallied from a 3 to 0 deficit to win in overtime in December, Yale and Princeton have both chalked up victories, and so tonight's results would serve as a valuable yardstick if it were not for the fact that the St. Nicks is composed of young business men, which makes it a fairly transitory organization, fairly strong one night and quite weak the next...
...look after the piano, piano stool, pianist. Plaintively the caddy says: "It don't seem right." Nor does the caddy ever get the piano stool adjusted to suit Iturbi: "Wherever I put it, he don't like it. I have even measured the thing with a yardstick-bought the yardstick to do it-but still he don't like...
Measured by this yardstick of his own making, President Conant has written a brilliant war-time report. From the "first asset is the Faculty" clause to the recommendation for an over-all survey of skilled manpower, it is the work of an intelligent liberal thinking in down-to-earth terms. Space limitations will not allow a full discussion of the report in one editorial, but some of the more provocative suggestions deserve mention...
...Poems: 1940 (Yardstick Press; $2.50) is selected by Oscar Williams with his eyes glued on his belief that "The poet is a man without a profit or any other kind of ulterior motive. He is free to tell the truth as he sees it, whether it is disaster or the resurrection." In practice this seems to make Editor Williams feel that unless a poem tells its readers something disastrous or resurrectional it is not a poem. His anthology contains much overwrought poetic material that could all suitably be grouped under Contributor John Berryman's observation: "Whippoorwill calling, excrement falling...
...high-pressure turbine, with its leap from 30 to 50% energy-conversion, was greeted by powermen last week as one more potent argument against President Roosevelt's long dreamed-of St. Lawrence seaway-power project, which would threaten with a sceptre-like "yardstick" the great privately owned, steam-powered utility systems of the industrial Northeast. Utilitymen regard the new turbine as a symbol, great as the monumental dams of the several power Authorities, that their own spirit of technological pioneering is not moribund, as friends of Government power claim. As a sound dollars-&-cents weapon against Government control...