Word: goale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economists will not agree with his derogatory attitude towards economics, which he makes subservient to politics: "This whole crushing depression is purely and simply the result of the decline of State power." Marxists will be enraged at Spengler's flat statement that the World Revolution "has reached its goal," is an accomplished fact. They may regard as an undeserved compliment his charge that "the world-economic crisis of this year and a good many next years is not, as the world supposes, the temporary consequence of war, revolution, inflation, and payment of debts. It has been willed...
Dartmouth presents one of the strongest teams in Eastern intercollegiate hockey with several veterans and the best college wingman of the vicinity in the person of Frank Spain. As in the case of both Princeton and Harvard, the Indian's goal is guarded by the team's captain, Jim McHugh, who is assisted by three other first-rank guardians of the draperies...
...fact that this is no ordinary political wrangle, fought for political ends. Mr. Gill is struggling to preserve the "Norfolk System," a method of reforming criminals which Cameron Forbes has characterized as "the one creditable page in the history of prison administration in Massachusetts." He has no political goal; he does not wish to build up political prestige or to influence voters. His only desire is to be left undisturbed to continue his constructive work. The objectives of Mr. Hurley, on the other hand, will bear careful consideration. He is ostensibly crusading against scandalous conditions in the Prison Colony...
Nana (United Artists) is Emile Zola's story about a Parisian gutter-lily, gilded by Samuel Goldwyn. When first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...
That such a goal must be distant even for rich Harvard, President Conant admits. But as first steps toward it he would combine present funds, make one fat $1,200 fellowship out of four thin $300 scholarships, award it for two or three years instead of one. As an experiment, he would like to set up half a dozen $1,000 freshman scholarships in a section...