Word: maye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ferguson's memorandum appears to assume that the University has no choice in the matter. It treats the existing policy as the dictate of an implacable budget rather than as the result of a choice among alternatives. At least one alternative, it must be evident, there is. The University may seek to assure itself only that it is going to be able to pay the prospective appointee his salary as an associate professor, leaving to the future the question of whether it either can or wants to appoint him to a full professorship. On financial grounds there would appear...
...this symphony of common sense, a not quite harmonious note is added by stock market reports such as this United Press dispatch of October 22: "The possibility that the stock list may embark upon a new forward drive was enhanced over the weekend by Germany's decision to intensify the war. Last week stock prices climbed to within striking distance of the 1939 peaks on indications that peace moves had failed." Disillusion grows with the reading of a pamphlet of the New York investment firm of Bonner and Bonner: "We believe that sound steel stocks, purchased around current levels, will...
Quite obviously, U.S. business is all set for a war boom. Dangerous as such a boom may be, it is unavoidable. American public opinion would not permit any embargoes to be placed on our foreign trade, not only because it is profitable, but also because it is almost entirely with the Allies, with whom our sympathies lie. As a Washington wiseacre commented, "For once, the dough and the ideals are on the same side." They certainly seem to make an unbeatable combination. We can only pray that the Neutrality Bill, which seems soon to be passed, will keep the resulting...
Most yeomanly English novelist since Galsworthy, Sir Hugh Walpole was finishing a long Elizabethan adventure story "to keep myself quiet." He was also doing semi-official propaganda work. Said he: "Because people realize the futility of war much more fully than in 1918, the result may be some new sort of realistic idealism...
...Wells's pre-war answer to a challenge to describe "the world as I see it and what is happening to it." Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species." For war, once a selective elimination of "the young male surplus," has become through technology a prodigious wastage. Wells sees general enlightenment as the only hope. Against groups that he thinks impede it he lets his anger ride...