Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Certain papers stated that the ruinous slides had been caused by cloudbursts. But the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter suggested that the wet looseness of the mountain earth had made it easy to send it tumbling with small dynamite charges, that the slides had been the work of a network of Norwegian saboteurs bent on breaking military supply lines to coastal air bases used in the bombing of Britain. The suggestion gained credence from the fact that Nazi armored trucks were rushed to the landslide districts, many arrests were made, a state of siege declared. Nazi police and soldiers stopped and searched...
...liberty become, by implication, inessential. These things are words. Words by means of which selfish individuals lead youths to disaster and imperialist war. These inessentials are evidently to be replaced in "an America prosperous and busy" by the happy spirits of Marx and Lenin working through the agency of certain enlightened economists. For who can doubt your conclusion that "an American prosperous and busy is an America invincible and free?" By the same reasoning, any prosperous and busy tyranny from ancient Babylon to present day Russia may be termed "invincible and free." Modern Holland was prosperous and busy...
There can be little doubt that the exigencies of the present armament program and the current emphasis upon unity in the common effort have strengthened the hand of Mr. Dies in his bid for a renewed subscription. No one questions the threat or even the actual existence, of a certain degree of attempted sabotage directed at the defense program. The country needs a watchdog to guard against such criminal activity. But everyone knows that a good watchdog is not an inexperienced loud-mouthed puppy that scents a burglar in every bush and snaps at every stranger. The Dies Committee...
Recovery and Defense. Most nearly unanimous opinion was on how to put the U. S. economy back on its feet. If "certain deterrents" are removed, 85.4% believed that private industry can in time absorb all the unemployed. More surprising was the line-up on what the deterrents are. Only 40% believed them to be all on the Government's side. A clear majority of 58.9% agreed that management is not blameless, that only by a change in business policies combined with a change in Government's attitude can industry absorb the unemployed. In this willingness to share...
...reply to the letter of Dr. Caner '17, I would like to offer my opinion, for whatever it may be worth, that the caricature of our president by certain students at the Yale game probably does represent the feelings of the majority of the students at Harvard. Since he does not seem to understand this attitude, I would like to enlighten him as to its causes...