Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot take a man without basic football instinct and teach him to block like a man with good football instinct. Valpey and his staff worked on blocking every day of the season. They did not neglect this fundamental...
...fast submarines will be advanced enough to chop up conventional naval vessels at long range. Bush tends to describe war as crystallizing into a stable pattern-he states that a future war will bring "no such burst of new devices" as appeared in World War II. The devices he cannot talk about may prove him very wrong...
...preferred over a conference table becauses they accommodate large classes. But the practice of moulding educational techniques to the capacity of available class rooms is hardly worthy of America's wealthiest University. Professors who find undergraduates incapable of benefitting from the conference method fail to understand that discussion cannot begin spontaneously after 45 minutes of one-way communication. Participation must be fostered, and it needs mechanical encouragement in room design...
...percent of the total news coverage for the year, foreign or domestic. This meant that about one-twentieth of the New York Times day in and day out was devoted to Lewis and his operations." Lewis is now, and always has been, a big man in American unionism: this cannot be denied, even by his most rabid enemy. But a good biographer must balance his book, and this Mr. Alinsky has not done...
Phillip Murray especially gets what seems unfair treatment. The man who led the organizing drive of the steel industry, who got U. S. Steel to sign a contract without a strike in 1937, who pushed his organizers through the tough "Little Steel" campaigns cannot be dismissed as a Lewis stooge without considerable evidence. Mr. Alinsky fails to point out that Murray may have been far more representative of the sentiments of labor than was Lewis when Murray took over the CIO, and that he certainly has followed since then a policy more sensitive to the needs and desires...