Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthy young jurist, Felipe Sanchez Roman; crafty former Finance Minister Jose Manuel Pedregal; Dr. Gregorio Maranon, onetime physician to Alfonso XIII and a great advocate of birth control; Dean Posada of the Madrid Law School and finally-when all these had found the Premier's seat too hot- chose an old guard, conservative political boss, Don Diego Martinez Barrios...
...German came on stage, clapped him louder and longer than they ever clap his sensitive, scholarly performances. Beethoven and Brahms-Walter's program last week -were painstakingly conservative. The other big-league conductors played almost as safe. Koussevitzky added Scriahin and a touch of his favorite Debussy. Stokowski chose Bach. Wagner and Schubert. Stock finished off with a mild dash of Stravinsky...
...solution is to give beneficiaries of the Plan the choice of working for their money or borrowing it, as their situations and preferences would dictate. Those who chose to work should, in turn, be enabled to earn the usual sum of $300 for approximately a third of the time spent by present beneficiaries of the Plan. Under this arrangement, the useful and educational work which is included in the Plan would displace the objectionably wasteful and routine jobs, and the workers would at the same time be given more leisure in which to pursue their normal University activities. Moreover...
...American as the dialect in which it is written, as the quick-tripping, minor-keyed banjo songs of the mountaineers, is as blood-stirring as an old ballad. The Book-of-the-Month Club, embarrassed by October riches, could not pass up this egregious novel, so it cannily chose both The Woods Colt and Flush...
...years ago, forty-five per cent of the graduates of Harvard College chose business as their vocation. Among the members of the class of 1937, if any reliance can be placed on the returns from the Phillips Brooks House questionnaire, the number will be nearer twelve per cent. The shift away from business so sharply revealed in these figures has been under way for some time but within the last year has apparently gone to unexpected lengths...