Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President found himself second in the news not because his words lacked their usual magic but because editors found his speech too generalized to get a good newsworthy grip on. A quarter of his address was given over to warding off criticism. His declaration that the profit motive should not be destroyed answered a question whose embers have for six months gradually been growing cold. Headline sentence: "The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief." Keywords of his theme: "broad" and "sound"-"broad program," "broad problem," "broad subjects," "broad outlines," "broad principles," "sound policy," "sound administration," "sound...
...show, led by a yellow sport roadster with exposed exhausts and a supercharged engine. Guaranteed speed: 100 m.p.h. Long and handsomely streamlined, the Auburns looked as if Errett Lobban Cord considered it a propitious moment to bid for the swift and flashy market, as he did to his great profit in the first years of Depression...
...performer of miracles; try as he may, he cannot stimulate a student to do self-directed scholarly work of a high order if native aptitude for it does not exist. Every tutor who was consulted in the preparation of this report stated that students of mediocre ability usually profit by tutorial work in only a very limited degree, and some of them not at all. To these, nature has denied the peculiar gifts necessary for indepenedent scholarship. Consequently the time which a tutor spends in trying to develop qualities that do not exist is time wasted...
...responsive, and the drain on the tutor's energy is greater in the one case than in the other. Since these are times when every item of expense must justify itself, common sense would suggest that tutoring be reserved in large measure for those students who can realy profit by it. The tutorial system would be more efficient and would become all the more strongly established if its work were concentrated in the field of its major usefulness, and the resultant economies in operating costs would be considerable. Thus the practical and the theoretical arguments reinforce each other...
There are obviously many men who profit considerably by this work who are not candidates for honors either because they lack the necessary group rating or because they have no desire to be candidates. Further, there are numerous instances of men who have become candidates for honors after period of one or two years of ineligibility. If they had been denied tutorial work during this period it would have greatly increased the burden of both tutor and tutee when they did become candidates. It is also likely that the independent work with a tutor very often inspires a student with...