Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon-time and the Freshmen were returning from lunch. Twenty-five out of 28 Freshmen carefully made a detour around that ladder. Then came two proctors. They, too, walked across the grass to avoid the evil omen. "Superstitious people," the reporter remarked, as he detoured around the ladder...
Stripping the report of the buncombe which must inevitably attend any institutional effort at self preservation, there remains its very sound protest against unintelligent slashing. An example of this evil was afforded by the recent fate of the Ornithology Department at the Boston State House, which subsisted through halcyon decades on an, annual five thousand dollars, and very gratifyingly accumulated a surplus of several times that amount through persistent prudence. This surplus might easily, have been used to keep in operation a valuable public services, of long utility to scholars, but the responsible authorities were unable to withstand the hasty...
...banking moratorium closed in on the financial heart of the nation last week it found New York State going to work on another evil consequence of the Depression-the "sweating" of women and children. In a strong special message to the Legislature striking at labor conditions that smacked of 30 years ago, Governor Lehman had called for a Minimum Wage law. Declared...
Second, while directors were heartily sorry for his and their mistakes (especially stock-selling) they did not admit that his or their acts were culpable. For every evil-looking act listed above they had an explanation which gave the lie to the headlines. Example: all loans made to officers were secured by collateral which was ample at the time. None of the officers have been forgiven their debts. They still owe the money and their collateral is still pledged to the National City Company. The "write-off" consisted merely in getting these frozen loans off the books of the bank...
...that science and machinery open wholly new possibilities for good does not, in our unskilled hands, prevent their collateral consequences from being peculiarly dangerous; nor does it lessen the difficulty of maintaining social balance in the midst of rapid change. Unless we learn how to maintain our stability, the evil consequences of machinery may out-weigh the good...