Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite such chaos in ruble values the Soviet State Bank can boast that its bonds are endorsed by the second son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament. Son Corliss does not belong to the Communist Party, calls himself a "critical Communist sympathizer," has an extremely pretty wife who is a member of the Socialist Party. Last summer they toured Russia. Last week critical Corliss told a meeting of 500 Manhattan radicals to "Buy Soviet 10% bonds! They are the safest bonds on the market today. . . . The once stupid Russian peasant louts are now replaced by as intelligent a people...
...have seen a specimen of Willoughby's ragfish. Few would care to. It looks crushed and anemic, has few bones. Ichthyologists think it may belong to a family of specialized and degenerate percoids (perch, sunfish). Only six have been taken from their habitat, the deep Pacific waters off the North American coast. Seattle residents and visitors may now see a Willoughby's ragfish in an aquarium unique in the U. S., if not in the world. George Yaeger is the Scandinavian manager of the Port of Seattle's Frozen Fish Department. No scientist, he is an oldtime...
...thread we are never distracted from a view of the whole story. Each character stands out a complete person, yet so connected with the main idea that we realize more than ever how one's environment can be shaken off only superficially. We need, more than we suspect, to belong somewhere, to be surrounded by the only realities worth acknowledging--namely: living by those standards which are the only ones accepted as best by East or West or by Christian or Infidel, which inspire a courageous and beautiful existence, which make us see life as a whole...
...memory of Robert F. Simes '85, and the gift from the Class of 1878, a large portion of which is used annually for the purchase of new books. For many years Professor Copeland and Professor G. H. Chase and others have met frequently to select books which properly belong in a "general reading library," and many of the best of current books on a wide variety of subjects may always be found there...
...Government of the Swiss Confederation is probably the nearest practical approach to democratic Socialism in the world. Railroads, posts, telegraphs, belong to the State, public utilities are closely supervised. There is universal military training, though citizens only serve two weeks a year after their first two months' training (three months for the cavalry). Citizens can and frequently do veto unpopular laws passed by the Federal Assembly by direct referendum. Inherited wealth is heavily taxed in most cantons. The President has very limited powers, serves for one year only...