Word: reforming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aware that his proposal that they go in for social reform would shock fellow scientists, Dr. Lynd beat them to the punch. "The scholar-scientist," said he, "is in acute danger of being caught, in the words of one of [W. H.] Auden's poems, 'Lecturing on navigation while the ship is going down...
...after another Republican reform regime (Mayor John Purroy Mitchel's) came in, Jimmy Hines had to live on savings. In 1918 he got into the Malto-Dextrine (glucose) business as a factory supervisor and trucker for $100 a week and a percentage of profits. He arranged the sale of a 25% interest in Malto-Dextrine to Charles F. Murphy, Tammany's big boss...
...Federal Theatre rival, The Hot Mikado kisses the Old Boys good-by at about the eighth bar of the first song, turns Titipu into a dance hall before latecomers are in their seats, makes Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo carry on like three little maids from reform school, and finishes Act I in an uproar when Katisha busts in, no hatchet-faced termagant, but an eye-rolling, hip-shaking, torch-singing Red Hot Mama...
...historical study of the interaction of the law of social continuity and the law of social change. The forces which make for change. The resulting maladjustments. The effort of society to achieve security through the mechanisms of invention, reform, and revolution. RELEVANT COURSES History 5a, b History of the U.S. History 50 Modern Germany History 32a, b Continental Europe History 55 Russia History 40 England History 60b American Revolution History 42 England History 62 Westward Movement History 46a France History 63 U.S.--Social History 47b France History 65b The South Government 5 Political Theory Sociology 5 Social Dynamics Economics...
...assembled potentates, sitting on leather benches under coats of arms emblazoned on the Chamber's paneled walls, the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, who is very pally with the princes on social occasions, told them to: 1) reform their governments; 2) stay at home to rule instead of spending eight months of the year, as many do, in Cannes, Biarritz, Paris; 3) stop spending revenues on their own pleasures. Britain had been scared into this unprecedented dressing down by the success of Mohandas Gandhi's recent fast to force reforms in the state of Rajkot (TIME, March...