Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burlew as First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Turned up in the process have been lurid stories of "secret police," embezzlement, telephone-tapping (TIME, Jan. 31). But though they kept at work just as busily last week, they turned up only one fact that was even faintly lurid: Harold Ickes has three expensive Government Packards (one sedan, two limousines...
...might well feel discouraged, since to dispel such feelings is part of his job. Nevertheless, in Boston last week a survey was released which indicated that inner inadequacy is a prime characteristic of churchgoers-or at least of New England Protestant churchgoers. For five years, students of Dr. Harold Washington Ruopp, professor of preaching at Boston University School of Theology, asked churchfolk around Boston: What is the outstanding question that you face in your thinking and, living? Professor Ruopp's tabulation of nearly 5,000 replies was published last week in the Boston Transcript religious column of Dr. Albert...
Thus last week spoke Dr. Harold Glenn Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, before the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. No mere plaint against labor was Dr. Moulton's argument. It was in fact but the converse of a familiar thesis, that higher wages and shorter hours are necessary to compensate for technological progress. The cause of 1937's slump, said Dr. Moulton, was that there had been not enough increase in productive efficiency to compensate for the raising of wages and the simultaneous lowering of working hours...
...Harold got back his thesis. He saw a large "D" with a small "-" after it, as Professor Bell said: "of course you'll have a chance to do better on your second draft. By the third draft you should have a pretty decent job done. This material is not easy for you undergraduates to grasp, you know. Ha! Ha!" He smiled as though he wished to be encouraging but couldn...
...29th. Both of us finished our second drafts today. "I'll be very disappointed if I get a '-' on the end of this "A." I told Harold, "I've given up the Vineyard, New York, and the family for Professor Bell and Herodotus." Harold nodded, but said nothing. He was silent all the way to class. For one hour he listened attentively to the professor's voice. Then he leaned over and whispered; "Say, Appleworth, let's see if we can take History 1 the second half-year...