Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turning its class contributions directly into the Harvard Fund rather than into the premiums on group life insurance can be highly commenion. There are reciprocal advantages to the method. The importance of the Harvard Fund is weakened by a separate system of class donations. The sentiment and earning power of the class funds are weakened by the policing and profits of an insurance company. Combining the two, if nothing else, makes for unity focussing graduate support toward one point. One master is oasier to serve than...
...America, the college student is trained to enter his business or profession with the purpose of accumulating wealth, and then retiring to live on other people's work. Were the United States under the power of another country, however, this condition would undoubtedly change, and the economic development of the country would be accelerated by the enlightenment of the universities...
...settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe," is his premise. The colonists were "stripped Europeans": stripped by Protestantism of humanity, by science of faith, by the Age-of-Reason of government. A lack or exaggeration of one of these three-the kingdom, the power, the glory-has characterized all but 30 years of U. S. history. The golden day of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and Whitman lasted from...
...POWER - Lion Feuchtwanger - Viking Press ($2.50). The handsome, malevolent features of Joseph Suss Oppenheimer leer through hazy German history. A moneylender, fawning but audacious, he makes himself indispensable to Duke Karl Alexander of Swabia, the peace of whose hairy bosom depends only upon war, wine and women. As finance minister, Suss rises to a cruel, dizzy pinnacle, from which he plunges voluntarily when his duties as procurer for the ducal bed involve his own daughter. He avenges her suicide and atones, with racial intensity, on the execution platform.... The treatment of prodigious figures in a pageantric time...
...both of low quality. She had nine railroads but these, after most of her other difficulties were solved, were long in the throes of rate wars. And after the railroads were quieted and regulated, two wide new vistas opened, calling Birmingham to fresh effort-the vistas of enormous power from nearby Muscle Shoals and of egress to the Gulf of Mexico down the Warrior River...