Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life in its wholeness." Such a system is impossible. The art of living can not be acquired through contemplation of present problems in their relation to the aspects of an older civilization. Men cannot through study erect a formula for the satisfactory life any more than he can add a cubit's length to his height by taking thought. Education, if it is to mean anything, must equip the student with a foundation upon which he can build the edifice of his life. This can only be accomplished by a sound, careful study of a few facts, an analysis...
...such a field. Finlayson and Kidder are a pair of weight men who need only to repeat the performances which they turn in every day in practice plus a little extra determination to place first and second. Healey is talking mysteriously about a new discovery of his which will add three feet to his shot puts
There is of course a modicum of plot, but when the bacillus, at the end of Act 1, announces that "The play is now virtually at an end, but the actors will discuss it at length for two acts more," some are willing to add with him that "the exits are all in order." Tuesday night no one followed his hint, though in the final soliloquy there were some who gave up and left. For only in the last act does Shaw cry out in a loud voice what his puppets (and most of them were but taken...
...Standardized materials without standardized homes were suggested by Frederick J. Kiesler who has done much work on European municipal housing projects. He suggested that every home have a standard nucleus of two rooms, kitchen, bath and garage. The owner could then add to these as his fancy and pocketbook allowed...
...nation no man could state surely. Yet the necessity for balancing the Federal budget was self- evident. Upping the income tax to the 1924 level would bring in, according to the Treasury's revised estimate, only $134,000,000 more than the current amount. An automobile tax would add $100,000,000, amusement admissions another $110,000,000. A variety of miscellaneous levies would possibly produce some $200,000,000 more. But the total of all these did not put the Treasury within striking distance of a balanced budget...