Word: rational
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company into receivership to force compliance with the state proration order. Said Mr. Julian: "It's the bunk." On the surface last week it seemed his victory. For the list of 73 officials of 59 companies cited for violating the curtailment agreement by the Oklahoma Corpo ration Commission did not include the name of Charles Courtney Julian. But these cases, said the Commission, were mostly not willful ones. Mr. Julian, said the Attorney General's office, will be cited later, alone...
...whole trend of his argument is against the practice of forcing the preparatory school to become a mere sausage machine that turns out a uniform procession of automatons stuffed with a scientifically balanced ration of minutiae. The danger is, however, that in attempting to avoid this evil by relying on the preparatory school to provide a sound background without the scourge of the College Boards, the matter of the varying quality of the various secondary schools is neglected. And in addition to this, under Dr. Snedden's plan the requirements of individual colleges are given no consideration. The result...
...Priests are automatically deprived of all civil rights?that is to say, they are not allowed to possess ration cards nor are they allotted to any housing space. They have to shift for themselves or?as usually happens?they are fed and housed by their congregations. It has to be said that the majority of priests are well cared for. At the slightest sign of counter-revolutionary activity they are at once shot, imprisoned or banished to Siberia...
...merits of a college debate is perhaps of no great significance when one of the debaters is on "home grounds" and presumably has the sympathy of a majority of the listeners. . . . It was hardly to be expected, however, that the majority against Harvard would be so large--the ration was perhaps ten or fifteen to one . . . Probably three or five or any number of individual judges would have been unanimous for Boston College or pretty nearly so, as the young men from the Heights outgeneralled their adversaries, marshalled arguments more skillfully, were more serious and more dignified, used better diction...
...Delano Roosevelt. Officials throughout the land pricked up their ears to hear what New York was going to do next about crime. To the legislature Governor Roosevelt proposed: 1) large additional appropriations for prison construction; 2) five emergency prison camps for outdoor work; 3) increase of prisoner's ration allowance from 21? to 26?; 4) more prudent selection and training of guards...