Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slichter will discuss the subject of "Analysis of Depression Cures." The meeting of the two groups, which the University professor will address, is the largest gathering of its kind in the country, Discussions of a wide range of Business problems are regularly brought before the group...
...visitor to Robinson Hall will at first be confronted be a series of sketches some of which seem to be nothing more than amplified geometrical patterns. Or others of them may seem like drawings that were started with one subject in the mind of the artist and finished with an entirely different one. The disdainful remark of "Huh, surrealism!" may be stimulated by Mr. Lougee's work. All these peremptory thoughts are actually unfair, for abstractions of Mr. Lougee's type merit a more mature consideration...
When Bob Hutchins became president of University of Chicago, he dubbed Douglas "the outstanding professor of law of the nation," offered him $20,000 to go to Chicago. Douglas refused because he wanted to complete his long studies in corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. A report he wrote on this subject in the Yale Law Review took the eye of Kennedy and Landis. Kennedy had never met Douglas and Landis knew him only slightly, but both were well aware of his record. In 1934, soon after the SEC got under way, Landis telephoned Douglas to come to Washington...
...author chose the faintly ridiculous, wildly improbable newt as the subject of his extravaganza must remain a mystery. Why he ends the book so indeterminately is easier to answer: he found he had bitten off more in the way of Wellsian fantasy than he could chew. Through the rest of the book, however, he does give about as copious a working-out of the satiric possibilities of his theme as could possibly be wished for, and while in some parts of this the creaking of the Capek brain is depressingly almost audible, in others-particularly those dealing with the grave...
...chosen as his subject "China Faces Japan," in which he will trace the historical background leading up to the present struggle in the Orient and the aims of both sides...