Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...technical men there is the Western Electric Company which manufactures much of the material used in the Telephone business. This is strictly a manufacturing company, controlled generally by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company--manufacturing, and producing only telephone equipment...
...compensated for, however, by the very definite permanence which is assured men who succeed with the Company. Business depression and the subsequent unemployment probably affect the Telephone organization less than any other group, for in good times or in bad, the Telephone Company will do business. It is so much a part of our economic and social life that nothing short of a physical or social revolution would have any great effect on the business...
...other institution might be mentioned, that is the International Telephone Company, an entirely separate organization from the A. T. & T. which has to do with Transatlantic and European telephone business. The International Company is coming to Harvard this year to take on men in much the same way as is the Bell system and offers an opportunity for work and travel in Continental Europe...
...response to a question as to what steps a young author should take to acquire style, Mr. Wilder said. "Style is a by-product of personality, and in my opinion nothing can harm the notation of one's personality, which is style, so much as the technical study of organization, paragraphing, periodic sentences, and specific details. The technical side of style should be learned almost unconsciously on the tide of one's tremendous nourishing enthusiasm for certain authors of one's own choice
...ordinary mind it seems that Philanthropy delights in scattering its pearls with much the same blindfold abandon that marks the scale-handling of the sister virtue Justice. One, and almost the only, great exception continues to be the Rockefeller Foundation, which, through its many ramifications, encourages the most varied forms of culture without rousing any lay opposition to its work as unnecessary or futile. The endowment granted to the Fogg Art Museum a few weeks ago may well become a classic example of sensible generosity; and the awards of the General Education Board for literary research of importance, while...