Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gulick and his fellows, is that they do a bad job of educating high-school youth. Almost all boys & girls today enter high school. Four-fifths do not go on to college. Still largely classical and college preparatory, however, high schools "fail to give boys and girls a scientific point of view and an understanding of the world," funk their job of making good citizens. High-school youth, said the report, is "hardboiled" about democracy and freedom "and inadequately prepared to do what is required to preserve either...
...squabbly session of the Supreme Court, young TVA Attorney James Lawrence Fly was repeatedly bumbled at by Justice Pierce Butler, made a retort such as Supreme Court justices seldom hear: "Your Honor, the point seems perfectly clear except in Your Honor's mind...
...this, his second ballet (Hollywood Ballet, produced in the Hollywood Bowl in 1935, was his first), Grofe had written catchy, adept, U. S.-style music, had added a persuasive point in his lifelong argument for "symphonic" jazz...
...submitted a reorganization plan which, while suggesting a substantial write-down of the common stock, nonetheless left C. & O. with an estimated 19.1% of voting power. Last week ICC cut this to 12.4% and, as it had lately done with Chicago Great Western and Western Pacific, rammed home the point that rail-road reorganization, new style, means completely wiping out the equity of common stockholders...
...Last week The American Banker'?, index of 17 New York City bank stocks stood at 32.5, one-seventh of its 1929 peak, even below the point where it stood the day before the 1933 bank holiday...