Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never have had leisure and now I want it. I'm not satisfied with what I write. I am capable of doing better. I never was fit for anything but a country editor, and I'm too old to run a country paper so I'm quitting...
...house in order, every industry and business is eager to get itself on an earning basis, but there are few who see the whole picture from the broad perspective of the National Government itself. If it were possible to do national planning in which every business would fit nicely into the groove set for it, there would be no problem. But economic adjustments are bewildering and baffling. Conditions change every day and government regulations and laws play a vital part nowadays in bringing about those very changes in circumstances that sometimes make all the difference in the world between profit...
...mammoth opera house he built for Chicago and for the first time since he fled the country a formal Chicago opera season was about to begin. Prices were cut in half so that orchestra seats cost $3 instead of $6. Big singers were engaged, but at salaries adjusted to fit a careful budget. Chicago's socialites never liked the high-railed boxes lined up in cinema-house fashion at the back of the house. But in ten new boxes built in an old-fashioned semicircle downstairs, those who had the desire and the price could see and be seen...
...Russia, Mr. Bryan replied, "Japan has already shown more politeness toward Russia and the United States. Japan's pride is hurt by this move on the part of this country, which she had previously considered an enemy of Russia. England resents the move. It means that our products, which fit is better with the Russian plan, will be imported in preference to English manufactures. There is no hostility from England, however, and no opposition from France, Germany, or Italy...
...obviously shared, by high university officials is not inexplicable. With its vision beclouded by reverence for the course system, by the stirring arguments of those present whose sustenance depends upon that system, and by the timidly which abounds in an atmosphere of traditional conservatism, University Hall has seen fit to treat the tutorial system as altogether subordinate to the old order, to make it fill in the gaps, to reduce it to kind of an intellectual mustard plaster. Year after year, the president and the deans have obscured this subordination with fine phrases and high optimism. But concrete advances have...