Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keenly interested in a recent addendum to your editorial masthead. Eustace Tilley was the firstborn of poor but honest peasant folk who domiciled on our landed estates in the neighborhood of Flushing, L. I. At an early age I recognized in him the guiding genius and spark which has, I am sure, contributed in no small way to his promotion to the editorial staff of your succinct and pithy publication...
...average spectator and his clothes, to provide equal acoustical values for rehearsals in empty studios and broadcasts played to packed houses. (This trick was used earlier in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, is upset only by an uncommonly dressy audience. For starched-shirt bosoms are poor absorbers, bounce sounds back toward the stage.) Unseen were 20 miles of cable, some 500 vacuum tubes, 100 amplifiers, a gasoline-driven generator for emergency use in Hollywood's next flood, many another foresighted gadget...
...adore these new pagan gods of the totalitarian states," he said, "but it is because we adore no gods at all. Secularism is a poor substitute for paganism...
...these technical and highly-specialized agencies are to be effective, they must have the best possible trained personnel. Hopkins seemed to think that intelligent newspaper publicity would be an adequate safeguard against poor patronage appointments and the agencies misuse of their delegated power. Yet such front-page publicity would be well-high impossible to get, for unlike the T.V.A. or the S.E.C., whose decisions on matters of policy frequently rate headlines, these proposed bureaus would be solely menial, administrative instruments of policies already enacted by Congress. Since these agencies would probably assume a position similar to that of the Budget...
...wish to call your attention to a recent move on the University's part which is a rank piece of unfairness and poor administrative policy. My reference is to the new Hemenway Gym erected on the Law School grounds and its projected use by the varsity squash team, the freshman squash team and the freshman quintet...