Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unemployment is not the result of the education." Mr. conant might well reply that it is often the result of the wrong kind of education. Can the Union possibly suppose that its own urging ". . . that the fundamental problem be faced . . ." is met by ignoring economic need in the actual situation we must all meet? No serious student of the problem would suggest that the best contribution education can make to the betterment of our economic life is simply to educate more students for longer periods in the same way. That road leads to a lowering of standards, injustice...
...individual is that his eggs are not all in one basket. Instead of putting his money on one or two stocks, he is banking on the combined action of a great number. Commodity Corp. uses the same procedure, but instead of buying stocks and bonds, it buys actual commodities or commodity future contracts. On December 31, 35% of its portfolio was in the warehouse, 65% in futures. It had future contracts to buy or sell in cocoa, copper, corn, cotton, hides, oats, rubber, sugar, wheat, wool and pepper. In the warehouse it held cocoa (179,482 lb.), lead...
...This is mistaking education for a commercial enterprise," proceeds the Union letter. "But what of the actual human needs of our whole democratic society? Great numbers of families receive little or no medical care. Many of them are ill housed, ill clothed, ill fed; many of them have only a caricature of an education. To meet the actual needs of our whole people it is perfectly clear that we are not producing nearly enough trained professionals...
These concerts will hold special interest as the first in which a woman has conducted the Boston Symphony. From what can be ascertained in the Glee Club rehearsals which Mlle. Boulanger has directed, she is not quite so skillful in the actual mechanics of conducting as she is brilliant in her verbal explanations of the effects she desires. Consequently there is a slight feeling of insecurity among the undergraduate singers which would probably not be felt by the members of a professional orchestra...
...little man" is especially important at Harvard this year because the Crimson squad can usually supply an outstanding first-place man in almost every event. Charlie Hutten, Graham Cummin and Willie Kendall generally finish so far ahead of their opponents that the actual competitive racing that appeals to the on-looker is found in the battles for second and third...