Word: virtualization
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Texas' biggest political news of the week was. however, the race to succeed Mr. Allred as Governor. In a field of twelve for the Democratic nomination (virtual election), leading contestants until last month were Attorney General William ("Bill") McCraw and redheaded Railroad Commissioner Ernest Othmer ("Red Colonel") Thompson. Then into the race stepped Wilbert Lee O'Daniel, of Fort Worth, a radio character well-known to Texans, for years a flour salesman, later a miller...
...cede the area to Germany or to allow it to fall into Germany's hands would be virtual suicide for Czechoslovakia. At one point the Sudeten area reaches to within 20 miles of the nation's capital. Containing the extensive "Maginot" line of fortifications, constructed with French aid and almost as effective as France's Maginot line, loss of the region would lay Czechoslovakia wide open to military rape. Located within the Sudeten rim are most of Czechoslovakia's industries, of her coal and iron resources. The famed Skoda munitions plant at Pilsen, dangerously near...
Intermittently since then the old Jamaica story of low pay and virtual serfdom, has cropped up. Early last month sugar plantation workers rioted, caused several days' disturbances. Last week economic discontent reached the general-strike and general-riot stage in the island's capital, Kingston...
...roamed the streets commandeering commercial trucks. One U. S. automobile branch agency was given a rush order for 1,800 machines. Next step observers last week believed imminent was the complete application of the National Mobilization Act, which would place the nation on full wartime footing, give the army virtual control over industry and all phases of national life...
...with all due allowance for the social phenomena which condition Harvard and have helped to push the Classics into the virtual limbo in which they now stagnate, all is not right with the department here. A definite charge that they have neglected to make their subject appealing to students must be made against the men who now control its policy. Musty research, benign scholasticism and dull philology are not fulfilling obligations to their subject or to students who might benefit from a more vigorous and timely presentation. That a broader cultural and literary approach might be used is merely...