Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believes that the "magic touch of par" corrupted business in the booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just as destructive on Pennsylvania Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par goes to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napoleon on the desk of a businessman, you'd better get out quick and sell him short. The same goes for Government officials...
...ready to say whom he wants to see as the anti-New Deal candidate in 1940, Wendell Willkie has already picked his New Deal man: Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose ability as a public leader he admires, although he thinks it beclouded by vindictiveness...
Sportsmen and municipal officials set up such a howl that papermaking States have threatened to crack down on the dumping. Some foresighted paper-mill operators had hired chemists to see whether the waste liquor could be turned to profit. One of the leaders in that move was cagey Marathon Paper Mills Co. (food containers, waxed-paper wrappers). To its plant at Rothschild, Wis. twelve years ago it summoned lanky, sensitive Guy Howard, free-lance consulting chemist, and gave him a staff of researchers. Since then it has put $1,500,000 into its chemical division...
Judas wanted to see the Kingdom of Heaven achieved on earth. When he realized that the upsurge of Jewish nationalism inspired by Christ was likely instead to make the Romans sweep away the remnants of Jewish independence, he allowed the Sanhedrin to flatter him into thinking it was his glorious duty to stop the revolutionary movement. The payment of the 30 pieces of silver shocked him, showed him that he had been a common informer. "There was one refuge left...