Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman should regard knowledge as a working tool, something to keep always at hand, something that cannot be earned by rote. For the sake of intellectual honesty, if nothing else, he should avoid tutoring schools and concentrate alone. Nor ought fear of bad marks drive him to these portals, because he can better cram by himself. Unfortunately, grades are gold when considered in terms of a degree; otherwise, as a measure of ability and real knowledge, they have only petty significance...
...shows to the editors' reporters. What was to have been an interview became a lecture with the editors on the receiving end. The President told his callers that they did not reflect the opinion of their communities, that they were lacking in influence but nevertheless responsible for the fear psychology which brought on Recession. Best indication of how the President stands with the press today is the fact that the assembled editors failed to take this lecture to heart. Some had talked back, most of them had found it funny...
Utilities. Last fall, when the big guns of business were trained on Franklin Roosevelt to force an armed truce, utility magnates let it be known that there was some $3,000,000,000 in needed utility expansion which had been held up because of the industry's fear of what the Government next might do to it or Wall Street. Whether this expansion is still needed now that power sales have been dwindling for six months is moot, but last week Jesse Jones declared that RFC would be glad to give utilities money for expansion. Said he: "We have...
...rivers of our national life will flow onward and not backward. Change as such one need not fear. It is the temper in which changes are born that matters. That temper implies a readiness to recognize the claims of others to civilized living, a willingness to submit the means for the attainment of that end to the traditional methods of discussion and debate, and an avowal so to arrange our institutional life as to make it realize, so far as humanly possible, the content of the new and growing liberty...
...monk. The third generation turns out a talented left-wing artist, an illegitimate-born Communist, an avowed Fascist. Despite this disturbing picture of British family history, Author Bentley takes a calm view of the future: If half of the preceding generation muddled through, reasons one of her characters, why fear the fate of the next...