Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in County Monaghan, Ireland; brought to this country at the age of 5. At 17 his feats of strength began. He walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when...
...their April number. The first thing they did was tear out the leading article. It was to be replaced by another article, a mystery article that commanded precedence. Plans were cunningly laid, and when Editor Ray Long entrained for California that night he felt that the secret was left behind him in safe hands...
...credit conditions than the 5% rate now obtaining. Last week call money was at 8% to 12%, time loans at 7¾%, commercial paper at 5¾%, bankers' acceptances (60 days) at 3 3/8%. The Federal Reserve rediscount rate was at the very bottom of the money market, was lagging far behind the general trend toward higher and higher interest rates. Theoretically an index to prevailing conditions, the 5% rediscount rate was actually an exception to them. That is why Mr. Warburg termed the rate "grotesque . . . out of line...
...theory behind the plan is that of extending into supposedly advanced courses the strict accountability which is needed in elementary survey courses. But this does not work; it is not fair, for example, to the Senior busy with a distinction thesis and the demands of divisionals to load him with small jobs which are wholly foreign to the type of thinking which he must do in his last college year...
There has been a good deal of talk about the freedom of the Harvard undergraduate to shift for himself intellectually, unsupervised except for the minimum of requirements. Behind this talk there has been much action that is courageous and liberal. But the College must go the whole way. There can be no halt-way measures, but they will exist as long as there exists the school of instruction which works out its effect in the pressure of insistent minor requirements...