Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ulterior motives, Mr. La Guardia's desertion of the toastmaster's pedestal is admirably in accord with the times. It represents the banishment to triviality of a function which his forerunners have allowed to assume undue proportion. Having withdrawn as a public entertainer, Mayor-elect La Guardia may perhaps conduct a regime noted for something more substantial than the well-fitting tuxedo and elegant bon mots of its leader...
...accustomed to make valedictories, but one seems called for this time.' He stopped... and spoke with restrained emphasis. 'I've--been--counting--the hours till I got rid of you.' He paused to let that sink in; then castigated the class... for their disrespect and ill conduct... He concluded: 'But perhaps this indicates a better disposition: and I will say this: I will try to think as well of you as I can, for the rest of my life.' Slight pause. 'The question...
While casting this season in the fast waters of the New York Stock Exchange, Fisherman LaBranche hooked himself badly. From the rostrum of the Exchange it was announced last week that George Michel Lucien LaBranche had been suspended for two years "for conduct or proceedings inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade...
...Norman Burdett Nash, Robert Treat Paine Professor of Christian Social Ethics at the Episcopal Theological School will conduct the morning services at 8.45 o'clock in the Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church...
...large colleges were to reach a "gentleman's agreement" on this matter, the smaller ones would undoubtedly follow their example, and secret practice would soon be a thing of the past. Few will deny that college football today is amateur in name only, and any change in the conduct of the game which will tend to make it amateur also in fact, should be hailed as a step in the right direction...