Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like to see a situation where we'd never sell another gun, another battleship or another projectile. I'd like to see the world stop destroying values and start creating values, and that would spell better business profits...
...position to be War Baby No. 1, as in the last war, but I can tell you that our directors and our associates don't want that kind of business. I'd like to see the war stop today. Bethlehem would be better...
Professor Rugg's critics accused him of disrespect to history and learning. His chief critic, practical Professor Howard E. Wilson, then at University of Chicago, investigated schools to see how the Rugg "fusion" plan worked, pronounced it a failure. But Professor Wilson found that he could pin no roses on the old-fashioned textbooks, either. Three years ago he investigated old-fashioned upState New York schools for the New York Regents, learned that many of the State's future citizens thought that habeas corpus was a disease, liabilities were assets and poverty was best defined as "the boyhood...
...award: the Vermilye Medal, named for Donor William Moorhead Vermilye, vice president of Manhattan's National City Bank. The first recipient: Lewis Herold Brown, handsome (see cut) young (45) president of big Johns-Manville Corp. (building materials, etc.). Until the presentation ceremony two weeks hence, the Institute will not reveal its bill of particulars in favor of Mr. Brown. It hardly needs to then...
When Lady Baldwin of Bewdley recently visited Manhattan with her husband, she wanted to see the General Motors Futurama exhibit at New York's World's Fair, but did not want to wait in line. She asked her husband, Earl Baldwin (Stanley Baldwin), to fix it up. He telephoned the British Consulate; the Consulate called the British Embassy in Washington; the Embassy, faced by a new problem in protocol, cabled the Foreign...