Word: seek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memorandum appears to assume that the University has no choice in the matter. It treats the existing policy as the dictate of an implacable budget rather than as the result of a choice among alternatives. At least one alternative, it must be evident, there is. The University may seek to assure itself only that it is going to be able to pay the prospective appointee his salary as an associate professor, leaving to the future the question of whether it either can or wants to appoint him to a full professorship. On financial grounds there would appear to be little...
...TIME would as soon seek the credit for inventing the steamboat as for inventing plunderbund-a word which is in the dictionary and which existed long before TIME...
...constant rebuffs which he received from the British side, he persisted in his endeavors up to the last moment. Geniuses are strange creatures, and Herr Hitler, among other paradoxes, is a mixture of long-headed calculation and violent and arrogant impulse provoked by resentment. The former drove him to seek Britain's friendship and the latter finally into war with...
...feared ravages of war, most of Europe's great art collections have gone into hiding. At the New York and San Francisco Fairs, however, many a masterpiece from Europe has safely stayed on display. With both fairs about to close, these foreign art exhibits last week had to seek other shelter...
...League to vote on a definite stand." Has not the crisis arisen? Is not the embargo issue proclaimed to be the "guarantee of neutrality," the "opening wedge to war?" Let the committee take a stand on this crisis, on the means of maintaining neutrality. Those who honestly seek neutrality will be more likely to express themselves then, either by joining the organizations which will inevitably arise to oppose the League's stand. All will be united in their desire for neutrality, and all will be making concrete contributions to neutrality by revealing their sentiment on how neutrality can be maintained...