Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preachers who inveigh against those who take the name of the Lord in vain had no complaint last week against those who, without blasphemous intent, took 1,060 futile oaths. Complaint belonged properly to Federal Judge John Percy Nields of Wilmington. Del. He had to shuffle through the oath-takers' 1,060 affidavits in order to decide whether the National Labor Board could legally force an employer to let Labor Board agents hold a union election in his plant...
...several days Bulgars were at least convinced that their new government was thoroughly Fascist in manner and intent. So admitted the new Finance Minister Peter Todoroff. who wrote that the coup had been planned for six months, that the army was determined to carry out a "reconstruction of the political regime to which end all political parties must be dissolved and a new Parliament set up composed of representatives of corporations." So. too. it seemed last week when, on the Vienna model, a new burgomaster and four vice burgomasters were appointed for Sofia by government decree. But when confused newshawks...
...long run depend for success. Against a legitimate strike coupled with sincere efforts for mediation, no just resentment can be aroused. But when, as in the present case, it becomes increasingly evident that the unions are permitting themselves to be led by Communists and other discredited radicals intent only on fomenting trouble, the antagonism of the general public is inevitably aroused. Between the upper and nether millstones of mob violence and popular antipathy, reason stands small chance of effecting a just settlement, and both Labor and Capital stand to be the losers...
...principle of "divide et impera" is to guide the economics of the Conant Plan, why should it not be tried in the educational sphere? Is the new and versatile faculty man, intent on making Harvard a national university by developing the talents of the scholar-group of students, to waste his energies, in the age-old way, prodding the "Harvard Community" along. The traditional compromise in lecture hall and class room between the tortoise and the rabbit must be abandoned...
...declares in effect that it is quite unnecessary to buy Jad Salts in order to reduce-which, of course, is a fact-but that any reduction must be brought about by cutting down on the food intake. While this is the technical thesis of Jad Salts advertising the obvious intent seems to be to make the public believe that Jad Salts is an obesity cure...