Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week John Lewis' trouble shooter, Philip Murray, assembled the top officers of C. I. O.'s automobile union for a seminar in Pittsburgh. Subject: order in the ranks. Object: to make the sometimes disorderly United Automobile Workers of America behave, lest the union's ill repute further besmirch the whole...
...classics, Major General Kawamoto sought to ingratiate himself by studying Buddhism as Wu's disciple. The Marshal gladly expounded the Master's life, the Buddhist Canon, the four Truths. One day last month, thinking he had won the Marshal's heart, General Kawamoto suddenly switched the subject from pulpiteering to puppeteering. Would Wu Pei-fu play? "No!" thundered the Marshal...
...matter of showmanship. Among Shakespeare's works, Hamlet clearly has an edge because its hero's fascinating, elusive character interests many more people than Shakespeare does. But in general-as Shakespeare productions of the past few seasons bear out-neither a play's fame, nor its subject-matter, nor its length, nor its cast proves very much...
...Terms (subject to the approval Dec. 28 by Square D stockholders): for Kollsman Instrument Co., Paul Kollsman will receive $2,000,000 of newly issued 5% cumulative convertible preferred Square D stock, plus 35,000 shares of Square D common, which at last week's market price of 34 were worth $1,190,000, plus either 35,000 more shares of the same common stock or $1,000,000 more of the same preferred. Also Paul Kollsman will receive $20,000 a year as technical adviser, and Kollsman products will still be called Kollsman. Apparently the Kollsman number...
...upon gradually receding planes, comprise the basic elements of the pieces. It is difficult to say, as many do, that Cezanne is a painter who appeals primarily to the intellect. Despite the fact that his style is one the foundation of which rests in a mental concept of his subject, his feeling for shape and his comprehensive power of suggesting texture and quality, serve to strengthen and support my belief in his capacity for influencing the senses. Like most great painters, Cezanne succeeds in striking a just balance between the sense and the intellect...