Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success. His repeated statement, repeatedly confirmed by the U. S. State Department, is: "I have no authority to discuss debts." But in present-day diplomacy, which Congress has told President Hoover he must continue to use on the Debts, lack of authority can be a great asset, a key to confidence. If a diplomat says Yes he means Maybe. If he says No he is no diplomat. A diplomat without authority can mean Yes without committing anyone to anything, No without offending anyone, yet his answer may open the way to further understanding and help set the stage for negotiators...
...frontiers of knowledge in their own fields. . . cling tenaciously to traditional habits of thought when their work as teachers is concerned." According to the report, professors, in order to favor their own original work, disregard any consideration of teaching problems. The departmental system. It is concluded, is the "key log in the educational jam" "narrow departmental ambition" draws attention away from the more fundamental problems of teaching...
SYMONDS (John Addington) In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays...
...year. Nine-tenths of these employes are clerks, stenographers, letter carriers, janitors, messengers, chauffeurs, laborers, agents and inspectors, all of whom are under the classified civil service and therefore hold their jobs regardless of elective changes. At the top of the personnel pile, however, are approximately a thousand key positions from which the Government is really run. To fill these executive jobs with men of his own choosing is a new President's official privilege and political duty...
...carried her back to Moscow. Presumably he married her. Why not?" A story has it that for the first few years of their life together Stalin, the suspicious Asiatic husband, used to lock up Nadezhda Sergeivna Alliluieva in commodious rooms every morning and spend the day with the key in his pocket. She bore him at that time two children?Vassily, today a lad of 12 and Svetlana...