Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third (city room) floor to wrangle happily with reporters. He takes a boisterous but effective part in the periodic poker games of the "Twelfth Street Country Club," a group of P-D oldtimers. When he built his present house in the Ladue district he asked his friends if they thought he was getting too near a creek. They said he was. He built there anyway. The creek made him mad, too-came right into his cellar...
Charlemagne was buried in a Persian shroud, and the late John Singer Sargent thought a certain Persian carpet "worth all the pictures ever painted." But, as connoisseurs know, weaving was not the only beautiful art of the Persians. Scholars may be engrossed by the Survey's detailed evidence that Persian art began even before Egypt's, that its course from 4000 B.C. to 1700 A.D. is the longest unbroken art tradition in human history, that it was the fountainhead of all Moslem art and the great synthesizer of the Orient, that such structural standbys as ribbed, transversal vaulting...
Nonetheless, some thought they saw signs of overproduction in the nation's No. 1 industry when General Motors Corp. announced that it had sold 83,000 more cars to its dealers in the final quarter of 1938 than they had sold to customers. This was almost the same surplus as marked the final quarter of 1937. But there is a difference: Year ago dealer inventories were at a peak of 425,000 new, 800,000 used cars; last week, according to Detroit estimates, they were relatively normal-300,000 new cars, 450,000 used...
...ledgers. They contained the record, written in his own hand, of 16 of the 18 years that Philip Musica lived and swindled as F. Donald Coster. Confronted with the diaries, the three surviving Musicas promptly pleaded guilty to violation of the Securities & Exchange Act. SEC Examiner Adrian S. Humphrey thought them so important that he adjourned his inquiry until the ledgers had been studied...
...sincere and genuine encouragement given to extra-curricular activities and sports in the part of President Conant's report relating to the College is indeed a welcome word. The President has been generally thought of as little concerned with any sort of academic affair not at least indirectly tied up with "studies." His support for concentration conferences and House discussion groups was rather to be expected as in the indirect study line, but the boost for outside initiative and the declaration that "no one need fear overemphasis on studies" should serve to dispel the unfortunate and disagreeable shadow which...