Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system going, with the Government (i.e., the general taxpayer) bearing administrative costs. Lest this seem a new and greater bounty to farmers, the committee pointed out that in the past ten years, exclusive of AAA benefits, the Government has paid $615,937,000 to stricken farmers in the shape of Relief, feed loans, seed loans. Crop insurance would be voluntary, and so far farmers have shown no great enthusiasm for it. But Secretary Wallace has long waxed enthusiastic about the "ever-normal granary" or "Joseph" plan for which it is a starter, so John Farmer is likely...
...meters last season. These two runners finished in a dead heat ahead of Woodland last week, but the Eli leader was just recovering from a bad cold then; it should be a different story tonight for we hear from New Haven that Woodland is back in good shape...
...symbol of the growing interest in political sciences, the Guardian, and this its latest venture, fit into the picture that as rapidly taking shape in Cambridge. Along with the continuous increase in the number of concentrators in Government and Economics, an increase brought about by the growing importance of government in the national economy, has come a recognition that public service will absorb a greater percentage of Harvard graduates than ever before. And the Littauer School, another offshot of this movement, will attempt to give these men specialized training before they take up their individual positions on the governmental payroll...
...Seymour's experience as provost has provided him with a knowledge of Yale's needs and possibilities which will be immensely valuable to the man who is to shape her policies in the years to come. It has given him close contact with the faculty and the corporation. And from this position he has been able to get a first-hand understanding of Yale, which must always be a part of her President's equipment...
...capital, it is the future of my children, it is the honour of the name I have given them-all things which will serve them one day. Therefore I work at my art, which is nothing (in money) for the moment (times are bad), but which will take shape in the future. That is a long time to wait, you will say, but what do you expect me to do about it, is it my fault?" One day he went back to Denmark to see them all, spent three weeks there. That was the last time they saw each other...