Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little time or money would be required for the institution of a receptacle for returned books. If placed near the ground level, much after the fashion of the arrangement at Boylston, it would save a great many unnecessary steps, and would make it possible to return books late at night instead of early in the morning. To prevent damage to the books thus returned, a slightly inclined chute--similar to those now in use at Columbia University--might be provided. Since a delivery system is neither intricate nor expensive there should be no serious objection to its immediate installation...
Over a thousand men an women, employed by the University Dining Halls, have their own rest rooms and lockers below the ground. Ruler of this Plutonian community is Roy L. Westcott, genial administrator who keeps the underworld machinery running with precision...
Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold fortnight ago intimated that the Government was likely to restrict advertising on the ground that it sometimes fostered monopoly (TIME, Nov. 21). Last week he backed down. Obviously embarrassed by the sensation which his comments on advertising caused, Trust Buster Arnold wrote Advertising & Selling that it was all a misunderstanding, that regulation of advertising was the job of industry, not of the Department of Justice...
...this reduced the capitalization from $80,500,000 to $61,000,000 and fixed interest charges from $1,700,000 to $505,000. As usual, ICCommissioner Charles D. Mahaffie dissented on the ground that this was not drastic enough...
...last confessed private doubt that "the business of America is business." "In other periods of depression," he admitted, "it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look back I can see nothing to give ground for hope, nothing of man. But there is still religion. . . . That continues as a solid base for hope and courage...