Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student talent: the Music Building furnishes accommodations: the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Whiting concerts are visitors from outside that help endow the University in that art. Likewise the history and current events of music are here, to be had for the asking, or, as tonight, for the slight labor of attending a lecture...
...popularity tends to transcend partisan politics, from which he has been, until recently, free. Unless the widespread sentiment for him proves academic, he is signally a "people's choice." Business, as distinct from Finance, is on his side because it trusts him as a student of material wellbeing. Labor likes him because he is fair, thorough, gives clear orders. Women trust him because he is a high-minded man whose deeds need no retelling and, from him, get none...
...this task was his Eminence Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. Since the Vulgate is the universal biblical authority for all Roman Catholics and since modern discoveries have posed questions against the validity of its sacred interpretations, Cardinal Gasquet's task is one of enormous value as well as gigantic labor. This year the jubilant festival of Easter will wear for Roman Catholics an additional brilliance; the Cardinal has announced that he expects by then to publish the second volume of his monumental findings...
...painter. But if a child grows up and thinks himself a genius when he is really an ineffectual, then there is a fly in the cream pitcher, a tenuous tragedy. Put the ineffectual (Theo Bissaker) on a fruit farm in Verdriet, South Africa, make him physically unable to labor, give him a stupid wife whom he married as a sympathetic gesture and grew to despise-and the cream has indeed been polluted. Theo Bissaker stakes everything on his painting (it is awful). There is no market in South Africa for fitful canvases. Finally, he leaves home, finds...
Houston Thompson will be the guest of the club at dinner before an open meeting Monday evening, April 2. Mr. Thompson was a former member of the Federal Trade Commission, and will deal with problems in labor, and the methods used by the commission in handling them...