Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the story may accurately reflect the reasons for the survey of the School now nearing completion. It implies as criticisms some things which we as students of the School regard as its greatest assets...
...either have to reduce drastically the price of goods they now make or greatly improve merchandise quality at present price levels. Food and raw material prices need to be eased down, mark-ups on goods reduced, and smaller profits accepted all along the line. Merchandise quality must once mere reflect competition and not indifference. And labor, having gained its wage demands, must rid itself of the 1930's philosophy of stretching out the work. Newburyport has been great fun for the storekeeper, but the real job begins with the producer. If he delays further, a price crash, recession, and unemployment...
...Read, reflect, think,' he said. 'Keep informed. Learn another language. Map out a program and fight for it, a broad, statesmanlike program...
What a radar "sees" is not the thundercloud itself; raindrops or hailstones inside it reflect the radar's waves. The fierce air currents do not show up on the scope, but the presence of large masses of raindrops is a strong indication of turbulence. A plane equipped with the proper radar can steer a safe course, even at night, among a herd of thunderstorms. The Weather Bureau's radar can spot a storm as far away as 100 miles, and warn planes to steer clear...
...hidebound by the attorney's dogmas, he probed behind them to see how they squared with actualities. To equate legal formulas with changing modern values, a new lead in thinking was demanded; he advanced a belief that laws are above men but that they must serve men and reflect the ethics under which men live in a moment of history. Thirty years ago he realized our path must lie in an ideal of cooperation rather than one solely of competitive self-assertion...