Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gravely ill. Never in good health, his heart weakened by years of hard work and good living, Broun was close to death. As he fought his fever in a dim room high above the Hudson River, in the Presbyterian Hospital's Harkness Pavilion, he could reflect that he had at least put all his varied affairs in order...
...they are an excellent gauge of the trend of inventories, for businessmen customarily borrow when they lay in larger supplies of raw materials, customarily pay off their loans when they let inventory run off. In order to keep purely financial transactions from unduly influencing the Index-which aims to reflect general business, not merely financial conditions-the turnover component for financial centres like New York and Chicago is kept separate from the turnover component for trade centres, and the two are later combined giving the turnover in trade centres, and much more weight than that for financial centres...
...time to reflect, to consider, to evaluate-but it may be the duty of woman to abandon herself in her thoughts to the vagabondage of dreams, for we live in a time when we require imagination to see the reality. That is why you must not be an army of resigned women. You must all-humble or great-fashion the homes necessary for France and future peace. You must combat war upon war's own principle-which is to kill...
Ryder compared himself to an inchworm revolving at the end of a twig, but for all his groping indecision his moonlit fantasies are spacious and simple in design. They reflect his eccentricities (he once proposed marriage to a neighbor the first time he met her because he liked the tone of her violin), his essentially happy life, spent doing what he most wanted to do. "The artist," Ryder once said, "needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
...three years ago Nancy found in her mail a letter suggesting that Belle Isle should have a carillon for her sunrise services. Nancy thought it was a nice idea, printed the letter. Next day came an anonymous donation of $1 toward the bells. Thereupon Nancy Brown began to reflect: a carillon must have at least 23 bells and a tower in which to mount them would cost anywhere from...