Word: nessness
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...Permanent Undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, tenacious Sir Robert Vansittart, who nearly enabled his chief, Sir Samuel Hoare, to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia by the Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week Sir Robert was busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian-Belgian round-robin agreement, under the terms of which Britain would specifically agree to FIGHT...
STOOGING for Gracie Allen, one of Ted Hu numerous radio chores, is at best confining ness for the man whose tongue and quick eye been ten years behind the mike. When given scope, as it is during the football season and in clubs, the tongue wins bordes of admirers s liberally with enemies. For example, when Ted Minnesota's 35 first stringers might be bench was at Princeton, or some such. Or when he t forked retort off-duty at critics or anyone else brushes with the man who has been ten years be the mile...
...even then only finds it a means of measuring the lapse between the incidents which occur to his ego, and thus give him an identity in life. It is the lack of individuality of the ingredients which go to form institutional life which foster and aggravate "stir-simple"-ness. It is by keeping abreast of the times and keeping alive my interest in my country and the world that I counteract the appalling efforts of institutionalization which I see constantly around me. I have a job assignment and duties to perform. They largely usurp my time, but their very uniformity...
...water. Judge Tellander also gave a prize to a Country Gas Station by Harry D. Jones of Des Moines, which showed pumps leaning crazily on a steep hill. Secretary Alice McKee Gumming of the Iowa Art Guild damned this as a caricature. It was all most painful to Zenobia Ness, instructor in the home economics department of the State College at Ames and supervisor of the Fair's Art Salon. Tactfully taking no sides, she could not help admitting: "It certainly was a surprise...
...profits of silver speculators; 3) the requirement that Government licenses must be secured to import or export silver. The effect of these laws enacted in 1934 was to pre vent speculation in silver in the U. S., put the silver futures market out of busi ness, leave the Treasury in complete control of the U. S. silver situation. Since Mr. Morgenthau had not exercised that control to suit the silver bloc, it was content to reopen the silver market, give con trol back to the speculators...