Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Traditionally, the chairman of the national committee is expected to do little between elections except raise money and hold the party together. State research bureaus grow moldy, contact between national and State party headquarters virtually ends, party headquarters settle down to the long, slow snores of their political hibernation. Worst of all, leadership of the party as a whole ceases to exist. Said David Lawrence: "It is not likely that the Republican Party will win a national election in our times unless it gives up the idea that it can do in three and a half months what an incumbent...
...Army apparently expected smarter rookies to identify a pistol as a gun. According to Webster, a gun is "any portable firearm except a pistol or revolver...
...propose "Slow, slow, inconceivably slow" as the club's motto) was also transferred to the new quarters. Younger instructors, therefore, still found the Square cafeterias more reasonable and the undergraduate Houses more congenial. Few of them sought membership; and the large clubhouse was usually dark and empty except for two or three professors emeriti who each evening debated Phoenician punctuation in the bay-windowed common room...
...welcomes alumni to the World's Fair annual meeting. There are three frequently-used pool tables, and a former dean of the Law School takes on all comers at rheumatic ping pong. The rathskeller held some very popular "punchteas" after the football games and offers vic dancing every evening except Sunday. This glorified Eliot House Grille and the three formal dances held each year have finally convinced many young instructors that the membership fee ($5:00 or $10.00 for the lower brackets of University income) is a good investment...
...another Harvard bigwig, Professor Alvin Hansen, is not so pessimistic. In an article in the October issue of Foreign Affairs the noted economist states that "an economic bloc consisting of the United States and all the countries in areas A and B"-that is, all Latin American nations except the five southernmost ones-"would have a solid foundation in the economic self-interest of all the countries involved. If it should be deemed desirable to include this entire area within in a single customs union, no serious problems would arise." He winds up with the following significant statement...