Word: regards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineers hope Big Bertha will be powerful enough to come in clearer than its German rivals. Its news will certainly be more credible. Hundreds of South American listeners have lately written to U. S. stations that they regard European newscasts as blatantly biased, those from the U. S. as objective. Said one: "Station W2XAF is considered a semi-official news bureau here. . . . When "we do not hear it, we ignore the news, particularly the foreign news...
...regard Americans "as just transplanted Englishmen. . . . The differences between the American and the British temperament are profound." Americans most resemble Frenchmen though they are a little like Russians...
Progressive architects regard the capital of the U. S. A. as a gleaming shirt front, dignified but stuffed. During its last great construction years the design of Government buildings was a monopoly of a few urbane neoclassicists, notably the late Cass Gilbert (Supreme Court, U. S. Chamber of Commerce) and the late John Russell Pope (Archives Building, National [Mellon] Gallery). Last week an open architectural competition brought forth the first modern design ever chosen for a national building in Washington. Its subject : a new Smithsonian Gallery...
...From their cross-currents flow new ideas, a few of which may live to enrich a later generation." Since the work of scholars can only be judged by their "long-run significance," he remarked that "they may be permitted to interpose at times a caveat to all who would regard the imperious demands of the present as sure guides for the future...
...unable to reconcile these actions with acceptance of your recommendation that the reclassification proposed "shall not, if adopted, automatically alter the status of the existing personnel as regards either rank or tenure, but that the status of each individual affected shall be separately considered by the administration and the department concerned, with due regard for commitments now in existence...