Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately, various people of unwelcome experience with the Skunk family--those gauche Skunks, you know, my dear--have wailed long and loudly about the rights of other citizens to remain sweet-smelling. Farmers complain that skunks dig up bumble bees and not only make them so ill-tempered that they attack without warning, but destroy them as well, preventing the pollenization of the clover. Against such charges, even the skunks retire in confusion...
Professor Etienne Gilson, exchange professor of philosophy from the University of Paris, announced recently just before returning to France that he is planning to organize an institute of medieval study at the University of Toronto. Professor Gilson will remain for the next six months at the University of Paris conducting courses in philosophy and then expects to develop the institute which will conduct research into the fields of medieval philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and political science...
...problem of capacity and the misunderstandings attendant upon it will remain. In his 1928 report Mr. Bingham quoted the figures of the total number of Harvard men, alumni and present members of the University, as 61,763. Restrictions on admission to Harvard make it likely that this figure has reached nearly its top mark. But Harvard's share of tickets in the Stadium is only 32,000, and there are hundreds of disappointed alumni each year...
...once proud democracy of the Commonwealth is facing a very real danger: no tenuous theory of possible powers is involved, but the actual undermining of the New England tradition of individual and local liberty. The Association of Selectmen has marked the need of resistance; their protest must remain impotent until the voters overcome post-campaign lethargy and give sinews to such opposition...
Hardly less ancient than the House of Warburg is the House of Baker, but the Bakers have not so continuously been bankers, and the Baker bank has not remained always in Baker control. This bank-the Bank of the Manhattan Co., was organized in 1799. One of its original stockholders was Stephen Baker. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. did not remain a Baker property, but did return to the Baker family 35 years ago. J. Stewart Baker, present head, succeeded his father, Stephen Baker, grandson of Stephen the Founder...