Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate circulation, and the best time for the government to pay off the national debt. A cut that induced savings might have some value, but the Knutson Bill frees from 10 to 30 percent of individual taxes for ready spending. And with the already rising prices, little saving is done: 1947's eighteen billion dollar increase in incomes was all spent, and this by itself forced prices up considerably. Of course the economic future of the U. S. is unpredictable, but the present seems to be the worst time to cut taxes radically...
Operating on the assumption that the Office should advise rather than place, John W. Teele and his small staff have done admirable work in job counseling. Rarely do they provide specific opportunities. First find out the man's interests and aptitudes, suggest several firms that may be able to use him, then send him forth to and a job himself. There is, it is true, much to be said for both the theory and practice of this system. Most Harvard AB's should be competent enough to hold down positions of responsibility, provided they have a liking and a natural...
...school is one of the best physical education schools in the country. It rates first in the profession and has turned out some of the leading people in our field. (But of course Harvard CRIMSON men know very little of physical education and the work being done in that profession. They are just interested in their own more acsthetic super-deluxe intellectual courses.) I only hope some of the Harvard men who have enjoyed the company of Sargent women have the initiative to denounce your very ignorant article. Our school, sir is one that has grown better every year...
...card: Hal Croves, Translator. Traven, Croves explained, couldn't come; but as Traven's old friend and translator, he, Croves, knew the author and his work better even than Traven himself did. Huston hired Croves at $150 a week as technical adviser. By the time Croves had done his job and disappeared, Huston was pretty certain that uneasy little Mr. Croves was Traven himself...
...Gentleman's Agreement" depicts a true and pressing problem, but only one of the many problems we have to face. Bur nothing is done about them. People talk about them or write about them like this, but they either are afraid or too busy to help get rid of them...