Word: impactions
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...Anton de Haas, of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration whose subject will be, "Can American Democracy Survive?"; Alvin H. Hansen, also of the Busness School, who will speak on "The Impact of Totalitarian Victory on the American Economy"; and Dumas Malone, director of the University Press, who will deliver a talk on "Foreign Dangers and American Unity...
...head. "For the same reason that a discharged gun kicks one in the shoulder," said Dr. Starr, "the recoil throws the body feet-ward." An instant later, when the blood strikes the aortic arch (curve in large heart artery), "[the blood's] headward movement is arrested, creating an impact which throws the body and the table headward...
...mother at the Monchensey estate. He is bewildered, baffled by his own lack of understanding and the blindness to his troubles of all his humdrum relations. It is only with the help of his Aunt Agatha's insight, gained through her experience with the curse in its impact upon his father, that he realizes the Eumenides are only his own conscience and he must pursue them, must make his life a pilgrimage of expiation, instead of forever fleeing...
This appeal for "the more positive teaching" is perhaps the most encouraging aspect of "war's impact" that we have noted among the academic hierarchy. . . . Obviously this must not mean that one point of view, or one set of convictions alone are to be taught at Yale, on the war or any other subject...
...dialect more difficult than that of WPA's Tennesseans. Sample: "I done lak seed a sicknun woming a widdur nur no bline gurl withouten no pappy, but shore ez youah name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help me Gawd!" Young Ned Fulton recounts the impact of drought on his father, his sisters, his starving neighbors in their little grey houses. Love interest is Ned's tenderness for Milldy, a mute Ozark urchin. After a raid on the general store, in which Pop Fulton is shot, angry Ned leads the gaunt, drought-mad farmers...