Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Therefore, I should like to point out that the anecdotes printed were merely extreme instances, indicating the difficulties encountered in doing business in South America. But these anecdotes certainly did not reflect the appreciation that I have for the cordial and astute qualities which I met with most often...
...could anyone explain the wave of fanaticism. Since going juramentado has lost some of its religious significance and is now sometimes sheer homicidal mania, it could have been just the excitement of the Moro harvest festivals. Or the out breaks might reflect Moro resentment against conscription or against the despised, diminutive, Christian Filipinos' (with whom the Moros have fought for centuries) settling and trying to govern in Moro territory...
...will also adopt new policy forms, mortality tables which better reflect the declining death rate, and a reserve interest rate of 2¾%. Previous reserve rate-the maximum expected investment return which is an important factor in computing cash values and premium costs...
...Roman Empire: the disappearance of its intelligentsia. The havoc among the older generation of the educated classes has been frightful. . . . But it is the outlook for the future that is darkest. . . . The youth ... is being brought up to act mechanically, not to think; to shout, not to reflect; to respond like trained animals to definite stimuli. ... A revolution of moral nihilism has engulfed the continent...
...last argument claims that "there would be a lowering of standards if Generals were offered both at mid-years and at the end of the year." This does not reflect on the Seniors in question, but on those who make out the exams. The Seniors are allowed "no lowering of course reductions," so the argument falls back to the "heavy burden on the faculty...