Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lumping American with European culture as "Euro-American", Professor Sorokin set the World War as a tentative starting point for an era of change that may take a century...
That the University is a better judge of the proper allocation of monies than are donors is too obvious a point to be labored. Mr. Conant can invoke more specific arguments. Gifts for stated purposes, although rarely refused, have in the past been sources of positive embarrassment to the University. There have been lecture series, even professorships, which involved questionable and unnecessary attacks upon popular institutions, even upon religions. Negatively equivalent to this is the fact that restricted grants have frequently supported eminently useless projects. Arising, perhaps, from vital controversies in the eighteenth century, these later became unique for their...
Moreover, to make certain that this is clearly understood, a warning note couched in sharp tones must immediately be dispatched to the fuehrer of Mars. An intercontinental conference to be held at some neutral vantage point such as the Milky Way, and to which the heads of the great nations of the world would personally repair, would not only assist in resolving the great intercontinental dilemmas but might also be of considerable benefit to America's internal economy. Indeed, the benefits which might be derived from such a conference are immeasurable: there might emerge from its discussion tables the outline...
Winthrop then went down to Kirkland's 15-yard line, which was the nearest either team came to scoring. The Puritan backfield at this point began knocking each other down on attempted spinner plays, thus stalling the attack...
...Funk's tour was perfectly timed to exploit German kudos won at Munich, but last week he was careful to point out how broad an economic foundation had been laid years before the Czechoslovak crisis for the present German drive of economic empire-building down the Danube...