Word: furnishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depositors whose institutions held about one third of the roads' $10,783,000,000 outstanding bonds. Pointing to the reduced margin of safety between earnings and fixed charges, Mr. Duffield declared: "If the credit of the roads cannot be conserved, we cannot continue to furnish them with new funds necessary for their maintenance and development. . . . An emergency exists. . . . Present earnings are wholly inadequate to support railroad credit...
...like Brodie and get away with it forever. A big men's-furnish-ing company from Edinburgh opened a branch shop next to Brodie's, undersold him, drove him gradually out of business. He welcomed his wife's death because it let him engage buxom young Barmaid Nancy as "housekeeper"; whiskey and Nancy became his crutches. Then Son Matt came whining home from India, hung around the house till one fine day he and Nancy went off to South America. Brodie leaned more heavily on the bottle, pinned all his hopes on Nessie's winning...
...leather, in paper, in boards, beautiful books and ugly ones, books to keep or to throw away are loaded daily in increasing lots upon a great U. S. public. Guardians of these truck- loads of print are the nation's librarians. Some think their duty is to furnish useful knowledge to all. But is it? Have they not already ruined the high aristocracy of thought in vulgarizing education? Should not a large part of the people-the simple, kindly folk-be left in ignorance so that they may carry on the world's most valued work? "Too much...
...They can do, if not revolutionary, at least sensible work on problems in which the undergraduate point of view can carry weight. If ever Harvard needed level-headed thinking behind its student action, it is in the first year of the seven Houses, and the Inter-House Council must furnish its share...
...solution which has frequently been suggested, would damage the whole purpose and standing of the Club. A feasible and not unprecedented idea is the presentation of revivals, unless there are unusual opportunities adhering strictly to policy. Besides attracting an audience interested in significant plays, the Club would continue to furnish definite contributions to the stage, and such a plan would materially push the renaissance of the Dramatic Club, already well under way due to revived enthusiasm and cooperation...