Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assurance of permanency at Harvard would be the best possible recommendation for an appointment in another university; and men lacking a guarantee of further advance here would consider seriously the offer of such an appointment. Thus, it would not be surprising if in the long run the policy here urged actually escaped the objection stated at the outset--of a substantial surplus of permanent associate professors. By the same token the proposed policy would better rather than lessen the chances of younger teachers not yet up for permanent appointment. This would be true, indeed, even if the percentage of associate...
...Chester and Mr. Weir, they must be accused either of being unacquainted with the facts or else of trying to conceal them in order to put the best possible appearance on their own activities. At best, they are the victims of the worst fallacies of wishful thinking. If their statements are taken at face value by the people of this country, a false and dangerous sense of security will be created. Mr. Chester and Mr. Weir would do the U.S. a great service by giving attention to piloting their own corporations through the troubled days that lie ahead, and ceasing...
Jamaica Inn is the somewhat free rending of Daphne Du Maurier's best-seller of the same name. It tells about the few but feverish days Mary Yellen (lank, pale-faced, sloe-eyed Maureen O'Hara) passed with her Aunt Patience at a creepy Cornish inn, until kidnapped by Squire Pengallon who later jumps from a yardarm, kills himself...
...rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross $43,717,000), 1933 its worst since 1909 (gross...
...best operative success, all Dr. Holman's patients are fed six haliver oil capsules, four oranges, two lemons, and "some form of vitamin B" every day for at least five days before operation. In emergency operations vitamins C and B are injected just before and just after operation. "On the third day following operation, the vitamin concentrates are resumed by mouth and continued throughout the full convalescent period...