Word: insofar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most fitted for-which they are most interested in, and in which they will achieve the best results-, and if the new plan succeeds in assisting these, it will have justified its own creation. Moreover, the eighty per cent quota for each department, not to be exceeded except insofar as would not increase its annual expenses, may bring about savings in the Tutorial System that will obviate any radical alterations. Unquestionably savings will be made, since the single factor that in the past caused increasing outlays-appreciable changes in the number of students in divers fields-will have been removed...
...Provencel literary tradition, when literature and religion co-operated and collaborated, and the present dualism was yet unknown; the third part is a paper on "Piers Plowman." There is a central unity, however, for Mr. Dawson's concern throughout is with the impact of religion on culture, insofar as it is ever possible wholly to dissociate the two. In the Middle Ages, especially in the XIIIth century, Christianity attained its cultural heights: "Europe has seen no greater Christian here than St. Francis, no greater Christian philosopher than St. Thomas, no greater Christian poet than Danto, perhaps even no greater Christian...
...glittering flood of gold purs from the Treasury, no honeyed words of the President can banish the fear inspired by the prospects of monetary manipulation. Regardless of its temporary effects on unemployment, any plan which contemplates the expenditure of billions of dollars is detrimental to the country's welfare insofar as it retards business rehabilitation...
Corey starts out with the present "Crisis," in the face of which he finds what he calls "Niraism" (the New Deal) helpless and meaningless except insofar as it serves to call in the State to bolster up a sagging economic order. Working backward, he considers the "Golden Age" which he insists was by no means everybody's boom. Farmers were excluded and "real" wages remained practically stationary by holding their own with rising prices, no more. But profits increased enormously. These profits were appropriated by "the owners of the means of production" and since they could not be "consumed...
...funds and a niggardly Congress: ''The evidence . . . indicates clearly that the whole Army, as well as the Air Corps, is short of modern armament, equipment and transportation, as well as an adequate munition reserve." Nevertheless: "In military aviation . . . the U. S. stands second of the great powers insofar as total numbers of Army and Navy airplanes are concerned. . . . However, the fact is clear that . . . our Army combat aviation appears to have been allowed to fall below other leading aviation powers of the world in strength. . . . The fear that has been industriously cultivated in this country by various zealots...