Word: therefrom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consumers Advisory Board, once backed a friend, William Johnson, in an ambitious but unsuccessful Editors' Feature Service (newspaper syndicate), but she is no editorial genius. Neither, for popular purposes, is Raymond Moley, criminologist, economist and erstwhile chief of President Roosevelt's Brain Trust, whose resignation therefrom last fortnight was explained on the grounds that he was to serve the New Deal by editing a weekly magazine to be financed by the other three (TIME, Sept. 4). The practical brains of the group seemed to be a fifth figure, Board Chairman Virgil Vercingetorix McNitt of McNaught (McNitt) newspaper syndicate...
...There is no existing legal authority for any modification of the contract because of the operation of the National Recovery Act. . . . The contract constitutes an obligation binding on the company and it may not withdraw therefrom without resulting liability to the U.S. for excess costs. . . . You are advised that there is no legal authority now existing to use appropriated public money to pay another price than the price fixed by the contract...
...curiosity, and, further, to guide only those students who do need and want such guidance. A stereotyped and formal conference week after week is deadly. Some students are, shall I say, too able, too intellectually independent, to need tutorial attention. Others are too indifferent, too sterile, to gain anything therefrom. In each case, a tutorial "system" should be flexible enough to allow the tutor to save his time and patience, and the student his time, patience, or serenity, as the case may be, by simply agreeing not to have conferences...
Although I am in full sympathy with the CRIMSON's attempt to get at the facts. among which current opinions of the tutors are basic, about the working of the tutorial system. I fear for the statistical classifications and conclusions therefrom which are likely to be made from the answers to many of the questions here given. My main reason for attempting to answer this questionnaire is the desire to express myself on question...
...selection of bats.* The bat which "W. G." preferred was straight-grained willow. With such a bat a scientific batsman like himself could calculate all the forces of his drive. To supply demand for such bats numerous Englishmen took to growing plantations of cricket willows, making comfortable fortunes therefrom. But lately growers complained to England's Forest Products Research Laboratories that their bat crops were imperfect. The Laboratories asked Dr. Joseph Burtt Davy to investigate. He found that soil, soil-moisture or climate could have nothing to do with the case, because select and outlaw cricket bat willows grew...