Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before a midyear Washington conference of business leaders in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hall of Flags last week, Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt, top U.S. Chamber economist, unfurled a banner prediction: "Nineteen fifty-six promises to be our best year in history in terms of production, employment and earnings. This prosperity ought to carry over into...
Land of Order. Near Opotiki, N.Z., after his house slipped 300 feet down a hill, indignant British Immigrant M.A. Emerson cried: "Things like this do not happen in England...
Mumford, the father of graduating senior Alison Mumford, used the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson as his theme in addressing the graduating class. "First of all I would recall the familiar doctrine that underlies all Emerson's work, the doctrine of self-reliance," he said...
Chiang, a leading Asian writer-illustrator, spoke on the subject of "The Chinese Painter." Chiang compared the present state of culture to that of the 19th century, when Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay "The American Scholar," called for an independent culture...
...that message in an epigram: " 'America is a willingness of the heart.' After his death, a hundred thousand more Europeans, forlorn, fleeing wanderers, found out what he meant. To us who came before them, the meaning is not fainter, though more familiar, and we scarcely need Emerson's gentle reminder and advice: 'The ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are, and if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best...