Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were actually at work on relief jobs. Nearly 6,000,000 were men, nearly 2,000,000 women. Difficulty of interpreting the census-beyond weeding out cards from people who had misunderstood them even more completely than the 20% who, according to a Gallup Poll, thought their replies would bring them jobs-was where to draw the line between regular workers and housewives, sons of families, dependents, retired workers who work only at intervals. Mr. Biggers proposed that his census be further checked by a "cross-sectional enumeration of our test areas" to make his figures more informative...
...Russia, had for three months given shelter, firewood, candles to two tenants in his condemned three-room flat, at rental of 5? per day. When he developed a sore foot and was unable to go out for wood, they refused to pay rent. Final compromise: the tenants agreed to bring their landlord food, firewood, candles in return for free lodging...
...Divorced last week from the book publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons was Scribner's Magazine. Harland Logan Associates Inc. henceforth will publish Scribner's. Charles Scribner's Sons retain controlling interest in the new corporation, which soon will bring out a digest of radio programs. When 33-year-old Harland Logan became editor-publisher of Scribner's 15 months ago he applied all he had learned as Conde Nast and Macfadden consultant, lifted Scribner's face, streamlined its figure. In 15 months Scribner's 40.000 subscribers trebled...
...presents the danger of concentration for concentration's sake; in time the presence of too many students in the social sciences may subvert Harvard's current idea of education to that of a vocational school. The theory of education here transcends the social sciences; in doing so, it does bring students here to be educated, and, contrary to Mr. Foerster, to a certain indefinable extent every student who graduates is educated...
...second part of the work, called "A Theory of Art", is the transference of the general notion of intuition into the domain of aesthetic experience. Art in the "means of revealing directly felt presentations". "The artist 'seeks beneath' to bring the aesthetic discovery to the surface." (p. 71). Mr. Szathmary's discussion shows very clearly that this conception of aesthetic experience, closely connected as it is with Bergson's distrust of analysis, can do little more than point out that such experience exists...