Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great progress could be made if in all second year or higher courses, first formal November and April grading was eliminated and second final grades were returned as good pass or fail. (It seems that the use of grades in judging scholarship awards is not sufficient for the intellectual outlook which such emphasis on them causes in general. There may be other justification for such detailed grading-I don't know...
...Californian he hates & fears Japan, he believes in the biggest possible Navy for the U. S. and therefore fought the London Naval Treaty (1930) almost singlehanded. He dislikes all foreign powers, suspects them of sinister plots against the U. S. Mention of the World Court infuriates him. His overseas outlook is almost precisely that of William Randolph Hearst whose newspapers glorify...
Mention of him in the New York Times and TIME was followed last month by a much-touted article in Alfred E Smith's New Outlook. Various radical weeklies in the U. S. and in Great Britain pecked at the subject. Meanwhile the drawing room chatter kept up; Technocracy became a vogue; the slower-moving magazines rushed m. Harpers for January carries an article as will the March Cosmopolitan (with foreword by the now somewhat embarrassed President Nicholas Murray Butler). The Saturday Evening Post expects one by Banker Vanderlip when he has discovered and verified what facts the Technocrats possess...
...doles and smoothing their way with pleasant-sounding platitudes. Never was there less continuity or design in their affairs, and yet towards them are coming swiftly changes which will revolutionize for good or ill not only the whole economic structure of the world but the social habits and moral outlook of every family. Only the Communists have a plan and a gospel. It is a plan fatal to personal freedom and a gospel founded upon hate." Optimist Churchill may give other optimists (including himself) food for thought when he admits that if he had a second chance at life...
...year. Questioned as to why Roan had already upped its production to that basis, Dr. Sussman said Roan "was among the producers that adhered faithfully to the 1932 understanding until after that understanding had been repeatedly breached." Then Felicien Cattier did what the brusque Belgians always do when the outlook of a copper conference becomes beclouded: sailed for home. Alarmed at this omen, Roan Antelope quickly dispatched its personable young Managing Director Arthur D. Storke from London to Manhattan. But the other producers did not bulge from their stand. Politely-for much as coppermen may bellow at each other over...