Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Combined British Universities Debating Team won a split decision over the Debate Council before 200 spectators last night in the New Lecture Hall. The British argued the affirmative of the topic: "Resolved: That Democratic Socialism is the strongest barrier against Communism...
Walter C. Carrington '53 and Jay R. Nussbaum '52 of the Debate Council will argue the negative of the topic: "Resolved: Democratic Socialism's the most effective barrier against Communism" against the Combined British Universities Debate Team at 8 p.m. tonight in the New Lecture Hall...
...switch to the "Oxford card system" was voted down in the same poll by 692 votes to 412. This system provides simply for checking in and checking out a women guest before and after a visit, but the students polled presumably felt that it meant just one more barrier in addition to the permission required from the master...
...Expensing the Excess." If Snyder was a lukewarm advocate, several onetime New Dealers were passionately opposed to the tax. Ex-OPA Boss Leon Henderson, now a businessman's consultant, termed the tax "a built-in barrier to new investment." War profits, said Henderson, should be kept down by constantly renegotiating military contracts. He insisted that World War II's excess profits tax had not caught profiteers: "Only one out of every six corporations that earned any income paid an excess profits tax . . . No statistician will ever figure out how many corporations escaped E.P.T. by the simple device...
...Division was recently reinforced by 8,000 South Koreans. In a 100-mile tour of the 7th's area, Almond asked one officer after another how the Korean troops were getting along in their training. All told him of difficulties arising from the language barrier. Said one colonel: "We may have to rewrite our own training program after teaching the Roks. I am convinced that we have devoted too much time to lectures and too little time to demonstrations. With the Roks, it's no use to talk. You just have to show them over & over; finally they...