Word: scans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home ahead of almost all his opponents this year in the back-stroke. There will be a snag down at Princeton in Al Van de Weghe. Nevertheless, Graham's time trials have caused Coach Ulen to look at his stopwatch with a glum expression on his face, and then scan the pool balcony for possible Yale scouts. Dick Tregaskis is working hard daily, and Freshman Coach Peterson and Ulen are trying to persuade a little more speed out of him. Harry Southwick and Jack Kennedy are up from last year's Freshmen, and at present it's hard...
...only way to determine whether "social control by the common law" is a new liberal banner or just the old jolly roger of the collectivists in disguise is to scan Mr. Lippmann's agenda for liberalism. His field of reform covers eugenics, education, conservation, the mobility of capital, big business and business corporations, money and credit, inflation and deflation, improvement of markets, necessitous bargains, monopolies, social insurance, taxation and finally the maldistribution of income...
Well might Edna St. Vincent Millay cry, "Oh, God, why write," if she chanced to scan TIME'S report under Science in its Aug. 30 issue. To have her scintillating, fire-refined, twice-forged, rapier-like lines from Conversation at Midnight attributed to a bearded, oldster paleobotanist who prates of speleology, must have been, to say the least, distressing to America's premier candle-at-both-ends-burner...
...elite guards, these have rushed about Russia, here mercilessly mowing down a peasant revolt, there breaking a strike, next subduing a mutinous Red Army unit. Without need to take as gospel truth even the more authoritative Moscow rumors on this subject this week, it was possible to scan them as significant reminders of some of the sorest points festering these many years in the Soviet Union...
...investment in corporate stocks of unrestricted trust monies created a sensation among sensation-proof Philadelphia lawyers. Wrote New-Dealing Judge William Curtis Bok, grandson of the late great publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis: "Fiduciaries cannot be put in vacuum and set apart from other investors. They too mutt scan the turbulent horizon of our financial and industrial life and do the best they...