Word: losses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from Friedrich's Gov 106, the theory side of Government in conducted at a less intense level. Professor Wright's course in American Political Thought has been temporarily abandoned with the professor's departure; but this is no great loss. Far better courses are given by Professor Beer, a stimulating lecturer and one of the bright young men of the Department. Both his classes in Comparative and Parliamentary Government are well worth taking...
...Navy Officer Candidate School, and was assigned to various naval stations and a submarine on the North Atlantic convey lanes. Farber is particularly bitter about the stretch he served in Denmark. "The Danes suffered very little from war," Farber writes. "All that they had to suffer was the loss of political and economic freedom. . . they had a good living and never any starvation, not like in Germany after the occupation by allied troops." Farber says Germany needs its economic freedom, and suggests the U. S. develop his country as a market for surplus goods, if it is not "afraid...
...plot's the thing, for whom heartbeats are more important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights. For others, a musical play will have to rank a bit higher as drama than South Pacific, if the loss in dancing, décor, and musicomedy's festal airs is not to smack of larceny...
...Dressing-up. "Just now, not a few of the reverends are at a loss to know how even to carry on the routine . . . They do not know that Christianity has no new message and that the Christian message is always a dangerous thing to impart. But one should not blame them for their sincere uncertainties. The message needs a new dressing-up, and this new dressing-up is in their own Christian living. They need a careful re-education...
...operates what he calls "the world's most unusual drugstore." Unlike most independent druggists, he never felt that he needed the protection of "fair-trade" (i.e., minimum-price) laws to protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first-year $39,000 (in 1925) to some...