Word: disinterestedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Metternich's career was an almost unbroken series of triumphs after Napoleon's fall until his own, in the Austrian Revolution of 1848, his biography deals principally with intricate diplomatic maneuvers, grows more tedious as it advances. The best pages in Author du Coudray's book...
Against these two views, the one crudely destructive, the other subtly destructive, of the advancement of learning, the celebrations this year will affirm the principle that if the universities are to do their work they must be independent and they must be disinterested.
The failure of the abortive Liberty League movement within the walls of Harvard comes as a surprise to the great mass of the proletariat also lodged, for various reasons, in these same hallowed precincts. Especially does this failure take on rather a poignant note when it is remembered that fully...
George Oliver May is a plump, urbane, British-born gentleman who winters in Manhattan and summers in Southport, Conn., collects old English silver, dislikes publicity, has a daughter married to Barron Collier Jr. and is one of the world's foremost authorities on corporate finance and taxation. In Manhattan...
Once each year, in theory, the legal owners of a corporation assemble for an accounting of the stewardship of their property. In practice the annual stockholders' meeting is largely a matter of form. Only with the greatest difficulty can stockholders be persuaded to sign enough proxies for a quorum...