Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the 1920's when money was easy and the University's budgets were expanding, a great many young men were taken on the faculty. It was not then calculated how much money it would cost were the University to accommodate the enlarged permanent staff which would result if all these men were promoted. This increase was then possible because of the financial situation, which was very favorable...
...have been interested in the book, How To Sing For Money, since it was in the manuscript stage. I thought your review (TIME, Oct. 9) a very keen analysis, but I wonder if it gave a slightly wrong impression of the function of the voice teacher today...
...Another group that felt the pressure of the Government finger last week was the German-American Bund, whose leader, Fritz Kuhn, faces trial on charges he stole $14,000 of the Bund's money. Kuhn took a leaf from the Hitler notebook, announced his successor to his cheering colleagues: long-jawed G. Wilhelm Kunze, now Vice Leader...
...become involved in this war, and we seem to be drifting even more rapidly than before in the 1914-1917 path, I think we should have no illusions. This war will probably not be won by money, good wishes, or airplanes. The starvation of 1917-1918 and the following one due to the continuing blockade between the Armistice and the Versailles Treaty, claimed in itself by German agricultural economists of repute to have cost the lives of 800,000 Germans, taught Germany one lesson. For twenty years they have been preparing with their potatoes, sweet lupine, and other crops...
...Between receipt of an associate professorship and retirement men die. They inherit money. They get tired. Or they are offered more attractive positions elsewhere.... Whenever under the new policy an intrinsically desirable teacher is turned out of Harvard and thereafter (within "the next five or ten years") a permanent appointee in his Department ceases to teach prior to retirement, the University will have been unnecessarily damaged.... But the present policy results in automatic dismissal of actual teachers of known value in favor of hypothetical teachers of unknowable value. Surely it is possible to frame a policy less blind and accidental...