Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nieuw Amsterdam nudged its way slowly through New York Harbor, and 74-year-old Dr. Albert Schweitzer faced the crouching semicircle around him like an indulgent grandfather playing a strange new game with the children. Though he refused to use English, he soon caught on to the rules. When they asked his interpreter to get him to pose against the rail with the city sky line behind him, Albert Schweitzer briskly nodded his grizzled head and grinned. "New York et moil" he said...
Disorganized & Leisurely. Last week Dr. Schweitzer took no part in the Goethe festival, but waited in Manhattan, working on his address and resting. Though Poet-Philosopher Goethe is one of his favorite subjects (in 1928 he received the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize*), he had not really wanted to come to the U.S. When he went from Lambarene to Giinsbach last October for a visit, he found at least six invitations to address Goethe bicentennial events, but he was so tired that he refused them all. Then from the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Hutchins, chairman...
...Looters. Which of the three traditions should be chosen? Though Sir Walter's heart leans towards the first, his mind rejects all three. Instead, he says, a new sort of Christianization process is needed if universities are to correct the world's confusion rather than merely reflect...
...years, the motive for this suit must arise out of a determination ... to attack bigness in business as such." The New York Herald Tribune agreed. It gave the back of its hand to Tom Clark for "Pecksniffian" charges, and said: "Mere size is the Government's primary target [though] the Government itself has fostered bigness in American industry...
...this quest has arisen the lustiest, fastest-growing phenomenon in U.S. finance: the investment trust, notably the "open-end" or "Boston-type" trust. Though the ailing securities market in general is barely breathing, the nation's investment companies sold $80 million worth of their own shares in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 26% over 1948. Said Edmund Brown Jr., president of Manhattan's fast-selling Fundamental Investors, Inc.: "May was the biggest month in our history and June was almost as big. Last year's business was around $10,000,000; this year...