Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Being myself a Buddhist, I read with great interest the note on Buddhism which accompanied your article concerning the Dalai Lama. You correctly quoted the principle of Buddha's philosophy of life as self-conquest. This is refreshing to see, since an alarming number of Westerners seem to be under the impression that Buddhism is a lot of heathen mumbo jumbo designed to please a golden idol so that he would send the worshiper to heaven...
...them through REA loans-and noted that there was no sensible reason for changing a successful administrative system. "The REA," said Ike, "has been working well and progressing efficiently under the existing administrative arrangements. The change in those arrangements proposed by S. 144 would be contrary to the public interest...
...child. Most of them were from impoverished homes, said the headmaster, and "a child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling." Recalls Braithwaite: "My own experiences . . . invaded my thoughts, reminding me that these children were white, and as far as I was concerned, that fact alone made the only difference between the haves and the have-nots...
...young sculptress named Gertrude Vanderbilt went to see Colonel William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody and his Wild West show, was so fascinated that she went backstage to ask the colonel if she could sketch some of his mustangs. It was the beginning of a lifelong interest in the West, which persisted even after her marriage to Financier Harry Payne Whitney. She sculpted a monumental statue of Buffalo Bill, in 1924 donated it to the town of Cody, along with 40 acres of land, as the nucleus of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Five years ago her son, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...
...short-term securities, the Treasury this week will auction off $3.5 billion in such notes to see what the buyers will pay. Then it will set the rate on a $1.8 billion short-term issue. Anderson tried no long-term bond, simply because the Treasury can not get an interest rate high enough (i.e., above 4¼% ) to sell it. Publicly, the Treasury is keeping a stiff lip. Privately, it trembles...