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...underlined the advice in Ecclcsiasics, "He that observeth the wind shall now; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. In the morning sow seed and in the evening withhold not thine hand...
...conference. But the 640 men, mostly Seniors, interviewed during the last year were about all its one Director and two Executive Secretaries could handle. If more Sophomores and Juniors are to use the facilities of the Office, which they should do if they want to reap the greatest gains, it must expand its size to absorb them. And it must also expand its aims with an eye to getting more students actual jobs, if Harvard graduates are to keep step with the horde of graduates from other colleges throughout the country...
...Golden Horseshoe brackets the harvest reaches bumper proportions. For the taxpayer with $100,000 of gross income, HRI will prove a net income boost of over twenty-five percent. The fortunate few who earn a half million every year will reap savings of more than seventy percent of current net income. The relative gain at the $500,000 level reaches almost thirty times the "relief" afforded the average laborer, even though the tax cut under the proposed bill falls from twenty percent to ten and a half percent for income in excess...
...women of 1946 (most of them) had their men back, a joy tempered by fears of wars to come. The nations were quarreling again; the year's news was dominated by the opposed efforts of Russia's Molotov and America's Byrnes to reap or hold advantage at the peace tables. The women, who wanted peace in their time and their sons' time, anxiously watched as the conflict over lands and lives and faiths took an intricate, peculiarly masculine shape in treaty clauses, commas and semicolons...
...blow Spain toward economic bankruptcy are sharper now than ever before. High prices for food fan the little man's desperation to a sharper pitch. The stink of governmental inefficiency and corruption is rising above normal. But the best guess is that Generalissimo Francisco Franco will probably not reap his whirlwind just yet. For he holds as tight as ever the only windbreaks that count-the army and the police...