Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graduate Schools, declares that a school of business can never make business a profession in the sense that law and medicine are professions. He says that the Business School is Harvard's greatest offense. The Harvard motto "Veritas", he declares, may be some day changed to "Veritas et Ars Venditoria...
...ordinarily presides when the incoming President is sworn. Last week, however, the outgoing President, Washington Luis (whose term expires Nov. 15) was still in jail, closely guarded by his revolutionary captors when it came time to induct the new provisional President, Getulio Vargas, No. i revolutionist (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.}. In these circumstances there was no swearing in but a five-minute ceremony: Dr. Vargas signed a paper declaring that he is President. Nations which recognized him three days later: Italy, Portugal (Brazilians speak Portuguese), Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay. Two more days passed before...
...were to fly 10,000 miles annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in the 39th year; might be killed in the 282nd. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (instruction, sightseeing, joyhopping, et al.) he might anticipate an accident every 5.8 years, prepare for death in the 36th. These chances are based upon the civil air accident record for January-June 1930, published last week by the Department of Commerce...
...speaker was Air Ministry Inspector McWade, assigned to Cardington Royal Airship Works. The R-101'S airworthiness certificate was issued by Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, England's air minister, who was killed with 47 others when the gigantic dirigible plowed into a hillside in France (TIME, Oct. 13 et...
...tower with glass?' . . . How utterly must he have been disgusted to see stone vaults, instead of supporting the roof, being supported by the roof! Or to see buttresses, instead of holding up a wall, actually being held up by steel! All this in the university whose motto is Lux et Veritas. There is not one suggestion of Veritas in the Sterling Library; and for that matter there is precious little...