Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly creditable job. The chief criticism to make of their report in the confusing way in which the two writers keep shifting back and forth between straight narrative and editorial comment, so that the reader never knows when to expect the words of Sweezy, Harris, or Gilbert, and when mere back-seat driving by the rapporteurs...
...figures: despite censorship bans and trade barriers in authoritarian countries, Hollywood lost only 6% of its market abroad, still ruled the 1938 roost by supplying 65% of all the films shown in the world's cinemas. Most disturbing fact: in Esthonia, esthetic censors banned several Hollywood films for mere banality...
...with which railroads are familiar: revenues down and costs up, largely for reasons beyond the management's control (see below). But Arthur Flatto believed that the management had "failed to function properly in producing profits," three months ago started rounding up proxies to oppose the management slate. No mere corporate troublemaker, he spent $4,450 out of his own pocket convincing other dissatisfied shareholders that they were entitled to minority representation "just like the Supreme Court." This proposition Messrs. Carlton and White dismissed, arguing that under Western Union's bylaws minority representation would be impossible...
...present virulence of the tutoring racket increases its abuses beyond mere causes for annoyance. They should be vigorously uncovered and prosecuted. As long as Harvard tolerates these insultingly obvious violations of its rules the dignity of its degree suffers...
...cantata and his chorale prelude for the next Sunday because that was his job, and, as a good workman, he did his job as best he could in whatever situation he found himself. Of course, one cannot discount the sparkle of ingenuity and inspiration which makes the difference between mere technical exercise and great art. But the change of attitude is rapidly taking place, and when one takes into consideration the amount of water that has gone over the dam since then, the results of the approaches of the eighteenth century and that of Hindemith are remarkably similar...