Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isadore Straus '93, president of R. H. Macey and Company, urged the application of the economic study of statistics to legislative problems of the country. A study he said of the economic effects of traiff and taxation on commerce might produce results that would cause even Congress to give heed to the findings of the Harvard Research Bureau in preparing its legislation...
...year or more, or even for a few months, form a habit of asking other undergraduates about the content of a course. Thence evolves the neo-professional informer who has every "snap" and "stiff" course at his finger-tips. For this reason the old student pays no heed to the meagre one or two lines of description which go with the majority of titles, since the pamphlet of courses has become little more than an "index of first lines...
Further reasons why the War Department is little likely to heed the demand of the Philippine Independence Commission (TIME, Aug. 6) for the removal of Governor General Wood came to light. They have to do principally with Filipino finance. W. Cameron Forbes, speaking at the Williamstown Institute of Politics illuminated part of the situation. The rest was lit up by General Wood himself in a report just published...
...word for Mrs. Reid. Seeing the film, one can hardly question her sincerity. She probably believes she has chosen a path where others may see her walking and heed the solitary figure as a warning. Yet her advisers all along have dressed the proceeding with most offensive taste. The strident commercialism of their advertising thrusts the bitter story on every billboard in the country. At the New York opening was included the " dance of the Addicts "; a group of figures writhed and postured under lights of ghastly green, adding a final touch that seemed almost to turn again the turf...
...trace the entire history of the world from the monkey to the World War as little more than a preface to the Utopia which was fermenting in his brain. German historians have found the prophet's robes pleasant. The latest, Dr. Kemmerich, too engrossed in the past to heed the late war, predicts that in twenty years Germany will be the mightiest nation in Europe. But since he also predicts that a new Romanoff czar will appear at the same time, his judgement would seem to be deflected by enthusiasm for the conditions of the past rather than guided...