Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three stories do not come off; their "ideas" are not sufficiently absorbed in the presented facts; they betray the diffidence or constraining consciousness of which I have spoken. More vigorous and independent are the book reviews; and more revealing, as one would expect, of personal adventure and direct relationship are the poems. The reviewer enjoyed the irony and careful flatness of statement of Mr. Boyle's "Stephen Martyr," and enjoyed still more the quite exquisitely phrased "Night Song" of Mr. Wade. Mr. Laughlin's two poems likewise deserve especial mention; they show a sensitive ear and nice perceptions...
...embarrassment before the airmail business is clarified. The private companies will get justice because they will be permitted to bid again. This will save the small stockholders and investors, too, but the mothers of the young flyers who were unnecessarily sacrificed on a peace-time job that had no relationship to national defense will not find any consolation in the excuses that will be made for the accidents...
...Finn, to whom it seemed downright unreasonable that Huckleberry should be sent to school, sleep in a bed and nightshirt like a "sweet-scented dandy" instead of cooking for "Pap" and running his errands. Nevertheless, ruled the National Compliance Board: "Child labor will not be tolerated regardless of relationship...
...institution of regular conferences between Freshmen and their advisers, combined with improvement of the advisory staff itself, and with increased emphasis on the importance of the function, would make the relationship between Freshman and adviser something more than the perfunctory thing it is now. If this can be done by only lightening other burdens of advisers, or otherwise compensating them, every effort should be made to accomplish that...
...International tinkering with exchange in the present state of uncertainty concerning American finance," snapped the spokesman, "would be useless - worse than useless! We must have a more substantial foundation than we have now on which to build any permanent relationship between American and British currencies. Otherwise we would risk entering into an unsound agreement which might be worse for both countries than the present situation...