Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anybody with a bank account and sailing experience can sail the Pacific next summer according to Brice Sumner '53, who plans to pilot a 35-foot sailboat from Nagoya, Japan, to San Francisco...
Flying tires, more than anything else, account for the injuries to onlookers and mechanics. When wheel and all takes off and soars 30 or 40 feet through the air, it can be fairly dangerous for those who happen to be within range...
Yesterday's was one of the longer and rougher practice sessions of the fall. It was longer because no time was devoted to dummy drill for the reason that the absence of several key men on account of hour exams and sundry other scholastic commitments made such a workout impractical. Just why it seemed rougher, or more spirited, than usual is hard...
...John Dewey is concerned, however, the world would have to decide the philosophical differences between him and Hutchins for itself. "Philosophy," he once wrote, "is of account only if ... it affords guidance to action." Today, his life is full of action, and it is hard for him to remember "that I am an old man." He remarried at 87 (his first wife died in 1927), and at 89 adopted two more children. In the past ten years he has published three books, is now at work on a fourth. "If it is better to travel than to arrive," he says...
Last week Wayne Taylor handed out a few bruises on his own account, in a 227-page report of a joint EGA-Department of Commerce mission. After spending ten weeks in Europe, studying methods of increasing European exports to the U.S., Taylor's committee came to one hardheaded conclusion: the U.S. must increase its European imports by $2 billion a year or its own exports will wither away and European living conditions will :all to a dangerous level. Unless this is done, he said in effect, much of the good accomplished by EGA (expenditures more han $7 billion...