Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piano, waits for quiet, proceeds to play as if he had no audience. When Schnabel decides on a program, his invariable comment is: "Who wants to come will come." It was to be expected that earnest young music students would be on hand for his series, meticulously following each note of the score. Surprise was that ordinary concertgoers would catch the fever, that by last week when the cycle approached its halfway mark the Schnabel recitals had become a popular rage. Seldom have audiences been more attentive. There are pianists who play with more flash than Schnabel, who hammer...
...deposits with the aid of a willing borrower and a good pen. When a bank lends, say, $25,000 to a businessman, it credits his account with that amount-an addition to the deposits, hence a liability. To balance the books' the bank takes the businessman's note for $25,000, which is an asset. Thus $25,000 worth of new credit money is turned loose in the country, passing from bank to bank in the form of checks. Not until the borrower pays off his loan does that money disappear from circulation. Provided he has enough capital...
...there are two sides to every question. In order to finish on a reassuring note, to leave us with a happy and renewed faith in the sincerity and honesty of our government, Mr. Sullivan concludes with a few words from the mouth of the President himself.--"The merit system in Civil Service is in no danger at my hands; but on the contrary, I hope that it will be extended and improved during my term as President...
Also I am glad at my heart to note that the shy Captain Stevens of recent Stratosphere fame will talk in the Geography Building on Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. The subject of his lecture being: "Exploration in the Stratosphere"; and will be accompained by lantern slides. But his secretary tells me admission is only by ticket and there be only a few left. But I think I did impress her enough that she will save...
Thence to the office all the morning and was pleased to note Professor Whitehead doth lecture on Saturday in Emerson A at 12. This did awaken in me some thoughts how happy I would be if as a merry Vagabond I did help impress some uninspired ones that it be men who count and not courses; that it be inspiration that doth move us along as well as sheer knowledge. Indeed, methinks, there be all too much emphasis on subject matter and too little on the personality of him who doth teach and who doth learn. For what doth...