Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finley opened the debate with a ten-minute argument in which he emphasized the value of a classical education, which takes an objective view of the whole span of modern events with an eye to classical parallel situations. He also asserted that the classical writers treated of the general phases of human endeavor and that since our modern civilization is based on cold fact, we need the classics as a balance...
Those students whose education leans heavily on aid from the University in the form of scholarships and part-time jobs, members of the teaching staff with a wary eye on their salaries, and all the other horde of workers and officers for whom Harvard provides livelihood, need not fear. If Harvard is in financial difficulties at present, and there is no indication in the Report that it is, one thing remains certain--the marking up or down of book value will have no immediate consequences on its ability to provide for its dependents. The book revaluation step is but necessary...
...post-election words of Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, who sees eye-to-eye with Franklin Roosevelt on socio-political reform, "The political sashay has not been perfected." On the plus side of their tally sheets the Democrats could chalk up only California, North Dakota and Maryland, where they won previously Republican governorships; Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, where they staved off Senate losses, and New York where they safely retained both Senate seats and re-elected their Governor by a squeak...
...abandoned partition as "impracticable," announced it would try another timehonored, time-stalling method used successfully when Indian nationalism flared up. The Cabinet decided to call in London a round-table conference of Jews and Arabs and urge the two factions to compose their differences under the benevolent, watchful eye of the Mandatory.* Should they fail to agree, the British Government hinted, a settlement might be imposed...
...have made the chains laugh. But Wright Patman has already put over the Robinson-Patman Act limiting rebate and other chain-store practices. And the steady increase in State chain-store taxes has assumed the shape of a national trend. Two months ago, therefore, A. & P., bull's-eye of Wright Patman's attack, broke its 79-year policy of silence on "public and private questions" with a "Statement of Public Policy" advertised in 1,300 newspapers over the signatures of Brothers George L. and John A. Hartford...