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...still to develop its wider applications; it has yet to make of the factory nomerely a mechanizing evil necessary to society but itself a civilizing agency. And the far-sighted leaders among business men, both here and in Europe are coming to see what it implies in the ever nicer adjustment of economic means to social ends, which is the meaning of management. "Human engineering" now is demanding the cooperation of highly diverse scientific specialists--economists, statisticians, political scientists, historians, psychologists, biologists, physiologists, as well as men of the medical, legal, and engineering professions and always at the center...
England is nicer in lots of ways than Mexico, so much nicer that last week the civilian leader of the latest Mexican Revolution, Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela, must have devoutly wished himself back at the Court of St. James's, strutting again in silk knee breeches with a cordon across his chest as Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary. Instead he was desperately striving in the state of Sonora, first to bolster up civilian support for the army of his chief-of-staff, General Gonzalo Escobar, and second with the forlorn project of despatching to President Herbert Hoover a request...
...think you Yale boys are just too sweet," said Miss Lois Delander, Miss America, when interviewed by a News representative recently. "I have been having the best time in New Haven and I think the boys here are so much nicer than college people other places. No, I haven't been to Boston yet, but I am sure the fellows there couldn't give me as nice a time...
...university town of ours the intellectually starved may find countless opportunities for delectable satisfaction. He may glut himself on great slices of history, literature, and economic theory. He may find stern, simple dishes in the fields of science and engineering, or he may delight a delicate fastidiousness with the nicer arts of music, painting, and sculpture. But the physically famished, the Philistine who suffers only from an empty belly, will find vain the search for sustenance of a similarly satisfying and pleasing nature. True, he may pick up here and there bits of dubious desirability, such as even the darkest...
...book written completely in an unknown tongue tends somewhat to lack interest. The average American will go docilely to listen to a play in Russian or Italian or French, though the nicer turns of phrase leave him relatively cold. There are always redeeming features. There are the coiling hands of Duse. There is the highly cultivated naturalness of the Moscow players. There are the snakes and daggers and dark shadows of the Grand Guignol...