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...eventual goal of industrial harmony cannot be attained by a series of step gap measures. In many cases the issue is as much sociological as economic. Workers grow dissatisfied with their jobs because the worker has become just another handle on a machine. No legislative flat can create a system in which each worker feels that he is making a contribution to society and that he is a necessary part of the nation's life. Only through a lengthy process of trial and error methods, worked out by labor and management leaders in each plant or industry, will on acceptable...
...last and most serious blank space on the meteorologist's map is Antarctica, whose violent winds probably affect the whole world. Not until this gap is filled can the meteorologists trace every major weather condition to its birthplace...
...gap between veterans and non-veterans is widened still further if athletics is omitted from the calculation. In this count, 45 percent of the non-veteran Yardlings and 22 percent of the veterans are found to be participating in extra-curricular activities...
...Schwebel's article has little new for the reader of any news magazine. There is plenty of room at Harvard for a purely literary and critical publication, and if the Advocate concentrates on meeting this need, it will be successful. The long-awaited first post-war issue fills a gap that has existed for a year, and on the whole the result is encouraging. Its writing stimulating and pleasant, the Advocate gives every promise of taking an important place as the voice of the finest of Harvard's literary talent...
Thanks for that nice article on Mr. Gunning, and his fight against unreadable English. . . . Modestly, the article does not mention the readability of your own style. Let me fill that gap. By my formula, TIME is more readable than almost any other printed source of news. For this, I herewith present you a "Readability Oscar"-and almost forgive you all the things you do to the English language...