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...equip ment. The dole tends the workers to idleness." Prosperity: "I am confident that the peace of the world will be preserved, and that before long a new era of prosperity will dawn; and in this assurance I bid goodby to those who have listened to my message, and beg to present my cordial regards to the President of your great republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Benito In English | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...result chiefly of my experience with them both in my student days, but the impression then made was reinforced later on by my experience as a journalist, and a journalist is a student, habitually out for information. He will hunt for it in every other conceivable place rather than beg admittance to the room where that very information is being recited by students or where that very information is being dispensed by possibly the ablest of college lecturers. The journalist will dig in his own "morgue", his own library, make luncheon appointments with fellows rated as authorities, exploit the Reader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rollins System of Education Places the Initiative of Study in Hands of Student and Abolishes All Lectures | 1/6/1931 | See Source »

...balls, etc., additional men are invited, but these men receive the cream of all the invitations." The writer goes on to say that the list is made up each spring from the graduates of about four well known preparatory schools, that the Harvard Deans are forced each year to beg Boston hostesses to exclude Freshmen, and that a large number of departing students each year owe their hegira to over-active social duties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Audacious" Undertakes Social Classification of Harvard's 250 in Current Tatler--Names Form Only Basis of Evaluation | 12/2/1930 | See Source »

...workshops to renew the Italian traditions of the minor arts. I beat on iron, I blow glass, I engrave hard stones, I print with my wood blocks, I color stuffs, I carve bone and boxwood, I interpret the recipes of Caterina Sforza and I distill perfumery. And I beg the head of the government of Italy to accept my offering whole and entire, and to declare it to be irrevocable and inalienable in any way or at any time; witness the living who are alert and the dead who watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Will of a Poet | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...member of the class of 1874, and as a man desirous of standing among those ready to praise moral courage, I beg to thank you for the position taken by the CRIMSON regarding the events and lessons of the very recent disgraceful week, October 5th through October 10th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Disgraceful Week | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

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