Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well stimulate use of House facilities for that study and intellectual camaraderie which the House Plan was founded to advance. What the masters must take care to avert is short-sighted renovation which does not make a positive contribution, however limited, in behalf of realizing President Lowell's original concept...
Donna Holabird shared her husband's triumph. She brought to the role of Joan an overpowering sincerity which combined with her technique, perfect appearance, and natural charm to bring her probably as close as anyone has ever come to Shaw's concept of the untutored but common-sense country girl thrust by her God into history. The play was more than a personal achievement, however, for the VTW had assembled a supporting cast with an unusual number of almost inspired actors. Under the expert direction of Jerry Kilty and Georgina Johnston, the difficulties of the play were overcome...
...course if this concept is carried to its extreme limits it would lead to the restoration of bargaining between the individual worker and the individual company--an end that would probably be quite acceptable to the men who are currently bewailing the helplessness of browbeaten business. The attitude of the unreformed sector of management was indicated last week in Chicago where a speaker before the American Management Association proclaimed the dissatisfaction resulting from high and rising prices, labor disputes, and "the fat dividend melons being cut by many of the country's large corporations" should be countered not by lower...
...Would you buy a 1947 automobile and leave it in your garage for 20 years before you use it? Well then-why buy the executive abilities of a university graduate and leave them unused for 20 years? The widely held concept that you must have grey hair and considerable rotundity before accepting major responsibilities is costing Canada millions of dollars in wasted dormant assets. American business wants Canadian youth, and deliberately creates attractive openings for them. Can we not attain comparable recognition here in our own country? . . . We are prepared to start at the bottom of the ladder...
Emphasizing that the democratic concept carries with it a great amount of intellectual responsibility for the common man, he deplored the present low standards of motion picture and radio entertainment...