Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Does this decision mean that the U. S. has no control over any national economic problem? The simplest example is crop adjustment. Is the Federal Government to take its hands off adjusting crops? If we do, it is a safe bet there will soon be 36? wheat and 5? cotton...
...Every miner wants a new agreement. All that a miner has is his pay check. Failure to make a contract will mean that he no longer would have that income...
...fundamental machinery" we mean the manner of faculty appointment and promotion, which is probably the very heart of the success of an educational institution. For many decades Yale has been almost unique in the country in giving the power to appoint and promote almost exclusively to the body of full professors in each school. The President has only a power of veto which has for obvious reasons been used put rarely. In practice this system has meant that the so-called "elder statesmen" in each department away the destinies of those among the lower ranks and of those who hope...
...mean to accuse Yale professors of repeatedly making their choices on the basis of personal agreement or disagreement. Yet with a system such as Yale's, the tendency is inescapable, as cases, not too isolated, show. That there is considerable truth in what we say will be demonstrated by the fact that no instructors will venture to endorse our stand, much as they might like to. As long as the system remains, the menace of inbreeding and intellectual stagnation and repression is ever present...
...Slesinger's first novel, The Unpossessed, appeared last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), critics gave it three rousing cheers. But few thought it Dostoevskian, none noticed that its title was a salute to the Russian master. Critical consensus was that Author Slesinger was a wit, which did not mean that her story was altogether funny. Last week her second book, a collection of short stories, not only deepened but broadened the impression her first one made. In Time: The Present Author Slesinger shows herself the somewhat proud possessor of what professors call "creative imagination." She has already been favorably...