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...they fumbled and Storer recovered the ball for a touchdown? And how we got two goals from the field and were able again by a perfectly executed play to carry the ball over the goal line? Again how in the last quarter Yale tried the much-heralded Minnesota shift and were able to carry the ball to our ten-yard line? And how in the last few minutes, as Yale was going to try a goal from the field, they became confused and were unable to get it off before time was called? And then the glorious times that followed...
...principle objections to the old Stanley car, namely that it took from 10 to 15 minutes to get steam up. The new car requires only a few seconds longer than it takes to start a modern gas car to get up enough steam to start. It has no gear shift, being governed entirely by the throttle and the brake...
...straightforward attempt to increase efficiency-it occasioned little indignation. The President's subsequent sad effort to streamline the Supreme Court naturally made suspect his efforts to streamline anything else. As redrafted and passed by the Senate, the Reorganization Bill's principal provisions allowed the President to shift executive agencies with certain important exceptions, appoint one man to replace the present three-man Civil Service Commission, choose six administrative assistants "with a passion for anonymity," created a Department of Welfare and rearranged the Federal accounting system. The last thing in the world the Reorganization Bill represented was an effort...
...past year has achieved more fame than the Auto Workers' brisk and boyish president, Homer Martin. Eight months ago, armed with contracts from General Motors and Chrysler, a membership of 375,000, an overflowing treasury and the enthusiasm of youth, the U. A. W. prepared to shift into high and charge the unconquered Ford fortress. Last week the sound of grinding gears could still be heard...
More complicated were reactions to discussion of labor unions. Groups, most of whom favored unions, heard a paper disparaging unions. Result was a marked shift to a less favorable attitude toward unions, but the lesson also split the groups sharply into two camps. This outcome Professor Remmers attributed to the explosiveness of the subject...