Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both paid and voluntary, are conducting themselves in a manner entirely incompatible with their obligations, and those guilty of infractions will be subjected to ruthless punishment. Every official must realize that he is there for the people and not the people there for him, and during the present difficult period bureaucratic narrow-mindedness, smallness of vision, presumptuousness and autocratic manners must cease...
...book is not flawless; Sandburg's method of filing and attacking his material by subject as well as by chronological batches seems to have caused a few unconscious repetitions. A few-but very few-allusions will remain unclear to readers who are not students of the period. There is at times a certain bleakness...
...three values each month for the intensity of solar radiation as observed in many parts of the world, and averaged. The observations are of the amount of radiation received in calories per minute per square centimeter at right angles to the sun. The overall average for the 15 year period was 1,9410 calories per square centimeter per minute or about 2 horse-power per square meter...
...reason suggested for this action is that all the licenses will have to be renewed this coming month. Therefore the authorities do not want any infringement of the law at this important period...
...always hard to decide to what extent an influential artistic figure is a product of the period in which he lives and, on the other hand, to what extent he has instigated and furthered the tendencies of his time. Strawinsky, however, has certainly been the leader in developing the aesthetic attitude which has prevailed among musicians in the last two decades. By various methods--from vague and theoretical presentation of his views as in the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, to his more specific writings and the practical application of his ideas in his compositions themselves--he has encouraged the concept...