Word: bane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power of the Conference to adopt the suggested protocol led the French and English representatives to arrange a suspension of the Conference. Meanwhile, a committee is to visit the producing countries and the League Council, deliberating the opium question at Rome. For the present, prospects of destroying the "dope" bane are severely blighted...
Gatti. The season finds the Metropolitan high in the joys of tranquillity, prosperity, prestige. It is the 16th year of Mr. Giulio Gatti-Casazza's directorship. Few cares there are to vex the brows of impresario and Board of Directors. Deficits, the bane of opera, are not heard of. There are no violent dissensions that break upon the public ear. People of musing memory may be diverted to go back to the very different state of things that prevailed during Mr. Gatti's first years...
...class suffers so much as the farmer from the bane of surplus supplies", Professor Sprague declared. "This is true for two reasons. In the first place, farming produce cannot be exported easily because it will spoil in the process. Secondly, the farmer cannot suspend, operations as do the large steel or coal corporations, until the prices rise and even if he could, the farming class is so numerous that prices as a whole would be affected little by one man's attempt to decrease the output. The general wheels of 'up or down' are hard on the farmer because...
Yale's magnificent new gift, from an anonymous donor, of seven hundred and fifty acres of woodland on the outskirts of New Haven, stands out in refreshing contrast to the members of half-given or useless legacies which are the bane of education today, embarrassing the beneficiaries as much as they inflate the names of the benefactors. Although it has been said that over half the title of college president is the office of continually passing the hat; it is more and more becoming the fashion for a captain of industry to justify his gains by largesse thrown...
Many of us who are interested in educational problems complain of the American system in general as being fundamentally wrong, and we hear vague sighs for the English method. Examinations are prescribed work, the bane of our college existence, are said to be a mere cold blooded ticketing of students; there is no freedom. Through school and college we are dogged into receiving an education which has been aptly described as a fair amount of knowledge in one field and a shrewd suspicion that other fields exist. We are prone to look to England for the solution...