Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case you should choose to publish my questions and your answers, kindly refrain from giving my full name. I don't mind if you just print my initials...
When a business runs into hard times, it pulls in its financial belt. The present U. S. Government, while it will not trust business to mind its own affairs, is not a business. In spite of the Administration's anti-trust tirades and its plans for lower daily wages for the building trades, for reorganization of untenable capital structures like the railroads, when it came to the point it has shied away from meeting deflation by the orthodox means of scaling down monopolistic high prices, disproportionate wages and interest charges. "Because it is unpopular to readjust by liquidation...
...typical caption is "Never mind Plato. . . . What does Freud say about it?" The Misses Doris Lutz and Helen Weston both treat humorously the plights and peeves of the Radcliffe girl...
...stiff courses and praising easy ones. The fact is that at Harvard there are no courses which are easy in the absolute sense. Some are easier than others, and some are of more value than others to the average student; but none are simple or valueless. With this in mind their relative worth can be approximated; and the criteria used include the organization of course material, its interest to a well-educated person, and zest with which lecturers and instructors impart their pearls of knowledge...
With the memory of Jeanette MacDonald as the delightfully dangerous flirt of "The Firefly" still fresh in the mind, one finds it exceedingly difficult to see here as the gawky, ignorant saloon keeper of "Girl of the Golden West." In spite of her ragged clothes and her western twang (which miraculously disappears now and then), she is as out of place in her crude surroundings as William Randolph Hearst at a Communist meeting. Nelson Eddy, back from his ill-fated venture at West Point, has also been democratized; but the results in his case are all for the good...