Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government can call up reserves without publicly announcing it, a facility the dictators have long used to scare their adversaries. Last week there began a quiet, gradual mobilization of reservists in Britain which is expected to keep under arms throughout the summer and autumn, Europe's danger period, some...
Scattered among pleas for "thoughtful rebels" and for definite merit criteria, the eight distinguished professors recommended the abolition of assistant professorships. They wisely felt the probationary period before final decision on permanent appointment to be too long and by the elimination of one academic rank they hoped to provide the lucky few with security at an earlier age. At the same time, they wished to set the others on the job-path before any lasting damage had been dealt their careers. But recognizing the dangers of applying its proposals too hastily, they worried: "Although some of the Committee's suggestions...
...provision to carry over net business losses and deduct them from business profits of future years. "A business with alternating profit and loss now pays higher taxes over a period of years than does a business with stable profits although the average income of the two firms may be equal...
...only one beginning instructor in 20 gets permanent appointment as an associate or full professor. Average time for the journey: 16 years; average age on arrival: 39. The committee proposed that the number of teachers' categories be reduced from 16 to six (including visiting lecturers), that the trial period be cut from 16 to eight years. Salaries, now varying widely in each category, will be made uniform: $1,200 for teaching fellows (graduate students); $2,500 for annual instructors; $2,750 to $3,300 (rising by five annual increments) for faculty instructors; $4,000 to $7,000 for associate...
...contributions to a National Scholarship fund was inadvertently sent out to him. Not sure that the didn't mean that Harvard had changed its mind about accepting his offer, Hanfstaengl wrote back offering to raise his offer to $10,000, to provide for the traveling fellowships for a period of ten years...