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...from committing suicide. In the mind of the would-be suicide, suggests Chase, would occur a semantic Stop-Look-Listen! monolog like this: "This is bad; this is painful, depressing, almost intolerable. But my life, my organism, is a process, always changing ... no two contexts are tho same. . . . Snap out of it, brother, snap out of it! Prepare for the next context...
...Governors* plus those of his old friends, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina (now a politico-lawyer in Washington) and former Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr. (now promoter of the Governors' conference). Shortly after the visitors emerged to let cameramen snap nine of the best political faces in the South (see cut), the White House issued the text of a resolution signed by the Governors endorsing "a floor for wages and a ceiling for hours." Since the Southern bloc in the House defeated the Wages & Hours Bill last month, some newshawks jumped...
...prophecy that even though Japan should occupy half of China and blockade the coast, "we would still be far from defeated." As in fighting Chiang Kaishek, Communist Mao would retreat & retreat, luring the lengthening Japanese columns into the interior, trusting that time and guerrilla tactics would finally snap the tightening thread of Japanese morale...
...chance to really strengthen the team, we'll snap it up," Stengel stated...
...important than this individualization of instruction is the method of study in the seminars. Most of the work is the thesis type, where the thesis is everything. A large amount of these courses have no examinations at all. The seminars, however, are not for persons on the lookout for "snap" courses, stand-bys of the tutoring schools. For although one thesis is often the whole story, this one thesis is likely to occasion as much work as a stiff course with examinations. No outside source can help the student; he must produce his work by himself...