Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harassed manufacturers' 1934 profits, and in many cases so heavy as to turn profits into deficits. Even firms notoriously in the red have been assessed and were paying up last week, as Tsar Schacht brusquely demanded that 100,000,000 marks be collected by June 15. Efforts to draw from the Ministry of Economics some explanation of how the $400,000,000. fund will revolve were met by bland assertions that it is covered by no law and hence must be considered an unofficial German movement of economic selfhelp. This explanation, German officials seemed to hope, may protect their...
...most happily wedded pairs, the 100 least happily wedded pairs. These 200 pairs and 100 divorced couples were given the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and the Strong Test of Vocational Interests, consisting in all of 545 questions, some banal, some trivial, some bizarre, but all shrewdly calculated to draw answers constituting in sum a significant mosaic of personality. The investigators then drew six portraits distinguishing the men & women of each of the three groups from the other...
...vulnerable door in that wall is the Bolan Pass. With its back to the door is Quetta; beyond it, on the British railroad to the Afghan border, the forts of New Chaman and Pishin. This is the land of the fanatic, black-bearded Pathans. And at Quetta, to draw their teeth, are stationed a British division, the Indian Staff College, a Royal Air Force training school and Sir Alexander Norman Ley Cater, 55-year-old bald bachelor and Agent to the Governor General...
...when the higher authorities are given either the initiative for appointment or promotion, or an effective final decision. Less intimately connected with the machinery of the departments, and hence less liable to the prejudice of personal opinion, they will also be in a far better position to survey and draw from the entire educational field in the search for new and different talent. With a full sense of our temerity in broaching this almost sacred question, we earnestly recommend to the Corporation, the open minded consideration and appraisal of Yale's traditionally hierarchial methods. Yale Daily News...
...time be used for the support of the university's athletic program, thus severing the "vicious connection between football gate receipts and athletic expenditures." This proposal has been hailed by those who bemoan the overemphasis placed on football in paying coaches high salaries, arranging all-star schedules to draw the paying customers and building huge stadia on a commercialized scale. Other institutions should follow Harvard's example, they argue...