Word: reflects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public enterprise which is economically warranted must reflect in some direction the benefit which accrues thereby. And if we could only find that element in the public economy which reflects the benefit, and use that, and that only, as the basis of taxation, it seems that a large part of our tax difficulties might disappear. Let us examine, then, the elements in the public economy...
...check-up reveals that six Harvard men, five from each Yale and Dartmouth, three from Army, and one apiece from Florida, Holy Cross, and New Hampshire are included. Probably this means that there's something wrong, but it also may reflect the influence of prejudice. For example Barrett, Harvard's captain, scarcely deserves his position on the first team on the basis of his play so far this season. But Barrett proved his caliber under heavy fire all last year when responsibility weighed on his shoulders less heavily, and somehow a feeling that without him the team would not really...
...spite of, or rather, because of, his high position, a new and current flock of troubles has risen to plague him. In April, when he pulled the call money market through a tight place, he received general kudos (though it was then that Senator Glass first began to reflect upon "Mitchellism," its nature and evils). But in October Mr. Mitchell arrived home from Europe just in time to anticipate the greatest Market crash in history with a bullish pronouncement. When the banking consortium was formed to halt the panic, it was the House of Morgan that received most...
...young male secretary proposed marriage with an ardor little diminished by the need to phrase it manually or in braille type. He later caused Miss Keller to reflect: "Love makes us blind...
...Century. Phoenixlike was the Century. Last August Editor Hewitt Hanson Rowland declared that "with added leisure in which to make a better magazine" Century's editors would give their subscribers "added leisure in which to read and reflect"; that the monthly Century would become a quarterly (TIME, Aug. 5). From 1906 to 1928 Century's circulation had dropped from 150,000 to 22,000. Last week, undismayed by the swan song of the quarterly Edinburgh Review (that "modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year" [TIME, Oct. 28]) and in the Review...