Word: finds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fault lies more with the Overseers than with members of the committees, for it is too much to ask of man of affairs that he continually make the trip to Cambridge only to find that he has no power and the matters before him are purely departmental. There might well be a compromise between old and new Visitors, for the constant and intelligent auditors are of as much service as the experts consulted annually on matters of policy. The "old-fashioned" visitors would of necessity be residents of Greater Boston, and possibly a Harvard degree somewhere in the past would...
...last fortnight, the undistributed profits tax was retained more in principle than in fact. But the principle is about as popular with businessmen as was the Stamp Act of 1765. Franklin Roosevelt in a strategic retreat last autumn intimated that the obnoxious levy might be modified-provided Congress could find a substitute method to make up for lost revenues...
...German Foreign Minister and onetime Henkell salesman, who in public makes a point of greeting His Majesty with the Nazi salute (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937). Below stairs, Buckingham Palace secretaries were receiving news reports from Munich, denied from Berlin, that that great south German city had awakened to find German mobilization against Austria far advanced...
...addition he attacks Marxists, liberals, classical scholarship, "sentimental internationalists," theology, economists, and educators who permit children to study what they like rather than what is good for them (science). On the constructive side, he advocates biotechnology as a way to make nations self-sufficient, thermodynamics as a way to find out what people need to eat, psychology as a way to find out what they need to think, a nice balance of skepticism and action to find out the dictators...
...constant companion a faithful and pious friend, one Oscar Optimesque, who used to sit on the platform while I pointed him out as an example of the ravages of alcohol. Unfortunately, during the past summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...