Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straightforward discussion of these topics will involve the making of a few honest statements that are bound to prick a few of the self-righteous and certain to upset these in authority. Dr. Ruthven hardly can be much more than a politician since he must remain in accord with the state board that forced Dr. C. C. Little to resign. It is therefore easy to see how these outspoken and iconoclastic comments might have disturbed his dignity. But he found the right method of combat. He merely withdrew the 900 subscriptions to the daily which the University purchases...
...United States, being a young nation, has ever had before it the examples of many other countries. But youth always has been peculiarly attractive to the uncertain ages. In trying to remain young; in having its face lifted by speed records Great Britain may have been guilty of the folly of aging men and women. And now, in company with other nations, England is entered upon the distressed state into which those of uncertain ago embark when their age becomes certain...
...this country is too often reliant upon the generosity of an individual, or grouped individuals, for its maintenance. Laudable though the support of such patrons may be, it is unfortunate that the direction of what little of fine music there is in the United States must remain cloistered in the precincts of the moneyed few. Where well-performed music is within reach of the financially less fortunate the executants are usually paid from private funds. Where there is no individual benefactor willing to make the requisite personal sacrifice the attending public must pay admission prices that are prohibitive...
...awfully glad the boat is big enough for me, little man, to sit and sail in it. I like to fancy myself crossing the ocean in it under the stars & stripes. . . . Meanwhile, I remain, dear Uncle Stimson, most gratefully yours...
...because of its implication that Latin American countries are not capable of guarding their own interests from European aggression. Washington was not particularly soured by Minister Estrada's lemon. From the State Department came an unofficial statement that no matter how Mexico feels about it, the Monroe Doctrine will remain in effect...