Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Remember that Russians and Russian equipment are largely responsible for General Miaja's "spunkiness" [TIME, Feb. 8]. Also bear in mind that the whole army had repudiated your "spunky" General, but that he was the only man that the Azana Government at that time could get to take the post of Minister of War. The only man on whom they could rely to do their bidding. The man who had pocketed the soldier's pay, and other little genteel acts along those lines. I quote from a letter smuggled out of Madrid: "It is certain that...
...along with a small stand of corn and beans. Corn and other grains will grow in nutrient solution but not in significantly heavier stands than in soil. Tomatoes are Dr. Gericke's joy. When the tanks are sheltered in greenhouses and the water electrically warmed, his tomato plants bear for eight or nine months a year...
These financial functions bear the same relation to banking and insurance as production does to manufacturing; they characterize the business, but are not performed exclusive of other functions. As selling plays a part in manufacturing, so also it does with banking and insurance. Banking and insurance, therefore, are not to be considered as unit opportunities for the performance of a single function but are composed of several activities of which auditing, accounting, etc., are a few. These we shall discuss in this article...
...mile course the river flows through the desert, receiving "neither tributaries nor rain, yet it does not dry up; indeed, close to its end, it creates the most fertile of all lands." Ludwig calls the Nile the world's greatest river, and his 619 pages of testimony bear him out. "Its basin contains the biggest lake of the eastern hemisphere, the highest mountains, the biggest city of its continent." It owns "the richest bird life of the northern hemisphere, nearly every animal species known to Paradise," vegetation ranging from the Alpine to the tropical, the gamut of geography, hundreds...
...many departments. He will learn that Peabody Museum still treasures a mermaid that was once the possession of the great Barnum. He will discover, if he can, why the Fogg Art Museum is going to sponsor a performance of "Murder In The Cathedral", and what possible relation this-may bear to the recently published "Harvard Has A Homicide". He will view the dim recesses of University Hall where student's lives are made and broken...