Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monthly, which only published for a single year, has disappeared and its officers with it. The offices have been vacated, and none of last year's staff could be located...
...finally, the effect of a private sale is that the company can never, during the 30-year life of these bonds, take advantage, as it otherwise could, of lower bond prices in future years in purchasing bonds for the sinking fund, for it is safe to say that none of this small group of private buyers would sell their bonds for less than the call price...
...Professor Pavlov's dogs was taught that a circular light flashed on a screen meant food, that an elliptical light meant none. Then the ellipse was gradually rounded out until it was nearly circular, but no food. This psychological double-cross sent the dog into a nervous state called traumatic neurosis, from which he had to be rescued by rest and daily rectal instillations of bromides. An obedient motorist is conditioned to stop at a red light, to proceed at a green. But Dr. Fabing's research marked the green as a treacherous come-on, since often just...
...father. Her angriest book, School for Barbarians, with a preface by her father, was published last week.* Miss Mann's book is about Germany's children. Other investigators have reported what has happened under the Nazis to Germany's once-great educational system but none has reported so scathingly as Erika Mann what has happened to Germany's youngsters. Her sensational but thoroughly documented description...
...best book to date, is more eloquent and convincing in defending democracy than he ever was in attacking it. If anything unifies the U. S. enough to justify its being called a nation, he says, it is Jefferson's slogan: "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Worn smooth by innumerable stump speakers, preached by thousands who did not practice them, these are nevertheless revolutionary words; they involve a great moral principle, imply a belief in plain citizens, and a greater degree of economic justice than any nation has ever possessed. If everyone acted upon them "we should...