Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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British farmers who want government funds to help them buy feed for livestock must fill out an application form. The form is self-explanatory-in a bureaucratic sort of way. "A grant, not exceeding 10% of the cost of rationed feeding stuffs," it assures the applicant, "may be paid under the [following] scheme...
...social security chief, Tuin wrote The Hague and got the discharged employees reinstated. Later the Communists voted illegal benefits to striking public-work employees. Tuin wrote another letter to The Hague, got the project vetoed by return mail. A Red alderman snarled: "We will settle with people of your sort...
...nostalgic group of Hoosiers in Boston caught up with Indiana's favorite songster, clabber-voiced Composer Hoagy (Rockin' Chair) Carmichael, and presented him with a 150-year-old Salem rocking chair. Said Hoagy from a comfortable slouch: "A good rocking chair is like music, sort of has euphony. It takes no effort to make it rock...
...explaining this flouting of the "frustration-aggression" theory, Stone broke new ground. He listed three factors which induce aggression: 1, frustration; 2, worry about what other people will think about one's contemplated aggression; and 3, fear of retaliation, which produces a sort of defensive aggressiveness...
...common. Back then, before the Great War, the classical and the worthy literature of more modern vintage along with at least two or three foreign languages were the heritage and the requisite of educated men. Today, with the economic necessity of specialization there are few who want that sort of education and fewer still who can afford...