Word: askew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showing Harvard to her for there is always plenty to gloat over and to point out pride fully in the Yard. A stranger isn't so quick to notice that some of those glorious trees are now drunkenly askew, propped up like so many old ladies. Strangers are inclined to see only the starched bosom of Widener. And she misses the ugly excavations while dreaming over the calculated simplicity of Memorial Church. Then Vag introduces her to his Yardling friends, Goo-Goo the pigeon and Grumpy the squirrel. They accept her, so she "belongs." Vag is pleased at their approval...
...issue of 442,443 shares of Pure Oil Co. 5% preferred stock convertible into Pure Oil common at $22.22 per share. But the coincidence of the market smash with the slow period of gestation which the Securities & Exchange Commission requires before permitting new stock issues threw the conversion plan askew. When the offering was finally made, Pure Oil common had fallen to $17 per share. As a result stockholders who had first rights to the stock took only 8,040 shares. The underwriters then took over the balance, impounded the stock to wait for a better market. Before this move...
...exercised by a business suggestion or anxious to be effective. Then he gesticulated, brought his face nearer to his interlocutor and spat slightly as he became emphatic. Finally he would wipe himself up so to speak and become suddenly immobile again, with his face interrogative and a little askew." . . . "No one could be so learned and wise and clever as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is certified to be by practically all the universities in the world. It's too much." And he can still clap down the nutshell on the elusive generality-this one is Life: "Dusty grayish events...
...Golden Mean", and this age-old truth may very well be applied to the problem of teaching and research. These two functions must be blended into a harmonious whole, if undergraduate instruction and the pursuit of knowledge are to benefit equally. At Harvard the balance is all askew; the pressure on young men to publish, or "perish", is so great that their teaching and tutorial sessions suffer. A man may be taught to lecture in a comparatively short time, but the gift of inspiration and ability to stimulate youth, is one that demands much work and practice...