Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee is the plea for conference groups in more Freshman courses. The experiences of students in Philosophy A and B especially, where a few high-powered cerebral machines run away with the section meetings, leaving the majority of the class cat their dust, make such a change seem increasingly necessary. Even discounting the natural fitness of History 1 for such treatment, the unquestioned success of the conference idea in this course, still augurs will for similar results in other fields...
...years, President Gay of the New York Market and other financial leaders have been hammering away at the surtaxes as a "potent secondary cause of stock market inflation." In a period when all tax methodology is being reexamined, it would seem imperative in the interests of stability, to repeat the capital gains taxes, and thus remove one more potential factor in a fatal inflationary move...
...Governor's tactics of retaliation seem to be as crude and as clumsy in this instance as they have been in the past, and the whole affair is not likely to increase his prestige, or what is more important, his votes next Fall. By showing his anger in this vindictive manner, he is letting the people of Massachusetts know that the sting of criticism has sunk deeper that was expected. The old adage of "It's the truth that hurts" would seem to apply in this case, for His Excellency has taken the matter very much to heart...
...case of the track team they seem to have the habit of winning so fully ingrained that it just can't be broken. The lopside win of 77 1/2 to 57 1/2 at Dartmouth last Saturday was no exception to the three year rule in all meets except the I.C.4A...
...that that expansion would go far toward reviving all heavy industries. Trouble was, though, that railroads were so burdened with debt that they were unable to pay even their fixed charges, much less to buy new equipment. Some people urged Government loans but that, declared the President, did not seem feasible. Some way, he suggested, would have to be found to readjust the railroads' capital structures, lighten their interest burdens. But he did not plan to do anything about it at this session of Congress...