Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...described her charge as an incarnation of God. The Warden blenched, categorically refused to admit such a Presence, which might prove embarrassing to the other undergraduates. The Master of Balliol shook his head regretfully, said they had had a great many famous people at Balliol but would have to draw the line somewhere. The president of Magdalen shook hands warmly, said he would be delighted, assured Mrs. Besant her ward would be able to mingle with the other undergraduates on terms of perfect equality. Krishnamurti went, however, to no college, was privately tutored in London...
...exceedingly difficult to draw the line between the pursuit of the proper individualism and selfishness. There can be little doubt that the tendency of the modern undergraduate to do what he pleases first, last, and always is as much of a distortion of true values as the most depraved dependence upon form, custom, tradition and so forth. He thinks that he is successfully resisting traps into which others before him have fallen. In reality, he is just as blind to his best interests as in the other extreme...
Whether or not the official bulletins and miscellaneous documentary announcements from this branch of the institution will ever contain facts important enough to draw the wrath of the press and humanitarian society down on the heads of the officials, is a question. Probably the majority of statements issued are wholly harmless. Nevertheless, this is of secondary instance...
...backbone it is the atmosphere of Washington. The diluting process is constant and drastic." An explanation by Mrs. Borah: "Billy would be so happy if it weren't for the pleasures of life." Because he did not think he was entitled to it, Senator Borah has refused to draw more than $7,500 of his $10,000 salary...
Many a working man has wondered why he is laid off in hard times when his company's stockholders continue to draw fat dividends. Last month Edward F. McGrady, A. F. of L.'s Washington lobbyist, sharply suggested that Industry should reserve funds to tide over its jobless no less than to pay dividends (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week William Francis ("W. O.'') O'Neil, president of General Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, announced a new and striking plan to pay Labor as well as Capital a dividend. In declaring a special dividend, General Tire...