Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Join Mr. A. C. B. in the query, "Why? ? ? ? Why the bell?" Is it to awaken certain employees? Isn't the college aware that we have such things as alarm-clocks; that they can be had for as little as sixty-nine cents? Aren't the Powers Above aware that this nuisance is deleterious to the health? In my own case, I get one less hour of sleep each night. Think, too, of the psychological effect. It's like having a cannon go off outside your window! It usually spoils my whole morning, and I am sure...
...elderly lady; the very model of a Savoyard aunt or mother-in-law; one whom time had passed by in its fast flight, and left in the twilight of bygone days, a little unknowing. After the first act, she remarked to her companion, "It is lovely, isn't it? I wonder what Mr. Sullivan is composing now?" Whereat Professor Kittredge turned and said, "My dear lady, Mr. Sullivan is no longer composing, but decomposing...
...President has taken the position that he must carry out the wishes of Congress. Public opinion, however, may at any time become aroused as to the vast expenditures and demand their diminution. There are no signs of it yet, for there is scarcely a state or section which isn't after some of the $3,300,000,000 to be spent for public works. Much of this money has gone for naval construction and other items that usually find their place in the regular budgets. Transfer of many millions has taken place...
...whose interest in economics is only as deep as the depression, there is certainly no satisfactory undergraduate course at Harvard, and probably no satisfactory graduate course. The Harvard economists don't know what the depression is. But they know what it isn't; and they tell what it isn't in Economics...
...would try out the issue of Treasury notes. If commodity prices don't rise, I don't know when we are going to get out of this depression and the next Congress will repeal the President's discretionary-powers and make monetary inflation compulsory. If something isn't done quickly, you can kiss the baby good-by-I mean, the baby of agricultural prosperity. The success of the President's program may be in doubt...