Word: quos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society almost totally governed by the law of the quid pro quo, it is gratifying to see men going out of their way to serve the public interest without hope of reward. It has meant a great deal of work on the part of Dr. McKhann and the other doctors whom he has persuaded to speak. It is not easy for a specialist to make himself clear to a lay audience, let alone make himself popular. It has called for laborious preparation as well as the sacrifice of a Sunday afternoon. Yet the success of the series is obvious from...
Igiring the morning session, William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, spoke on "The New Balance of Power." He stressed the belief that the nations who are at present supporting the "Status quo" should make sacrifices to Japan and the Rome-Berlin axis in order to prevent greater sacrifices later in the form...
...immediately procured a restraining order from the State Supreme Court preserving the status quo until this week. Simultaneously Sheriff William J. Hamilton Jr., Mayor Wilson's bitterest political foe, ostentatiously mobilized 160 pudgy deputies "to enforce the orders of the courts." The Civil Service Commission in the meantime opened an investigation of Sam Wilson's action in ordering police to circulate 7,000 "Stop the Gas Steal" petitions, each headed by his signature. Snorted Civil Service Commission Chairman Thaddeus M. Daly: "There are three courses this commission may take . . . ask the council to take appropriate action...
...necessary foreign licenses and franchises-which Pan American's shrewd young President Juan Terry Trippe has forehandedly tied up on an exclusive basis in most countries where U. S. planes are likely to land. For Pan American the Lee-McCarran Bill would, in effect, preserve the status quo...
...every fundamental obstacle to ultimate happiness he has formed many solutions, most of which are probably wrong, but some of which must contain the germ of truth. Unfortunately, because of the complex social system, in which his elders refuse to yield the sceptre, dreading a change in the status quo, he is compelled to remain in idle unrest, able to do nothing. To add to his plight, he perceives with wonder that the old have lost hope and are resigned to to let the world follow its own highway to destruction...