Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxpayers not on any public payroll, the rise of reciprocal taxation presented food for a happy thought: that making taxes more real to public officials might make them more chary with public funds...
...processes of thought are clear, direct and, within limitations, coldly logical...
Whether this action will prove sufficient to solve the House Question "in toto" is very doubtful, but a great step has been taken. For when thought is once converted into action, as has happened in this instance, it is likely that suggestions for definite measures in the future will be more readily met. Indeed, it is this aspect of the decision that is as cheering as any tangible achievement made toward alleviating this problem. For, excellent as these moves are, they cannot be regarded as final solutions. There yet remains to be solved the very thorny question of House selection...
...present, it was thought that the problem of keeping the seal off students' note paper was very nearly solved as the offending engravers and printing companies were traced and sent requesters to refrain from the practice of using the Harvard seal...
Surprisingly similar to "Mayerling" in mood and pace, "Orage"--now at the Fine Arts--attains dramatic excellence through masterful use of simple, intrinsically unprepossessing material. In the hands of Warner Brother and Kay Francis--perish the thought!--it would probably have been trite and dull, for the plot concerns merely the tragic love of a marries man (Mr. Boyer) and a tempestuous, delicate, passionate femme du monde (Michele Morgan). But the vehicle is unimportant; around the character of Francoise--portrayed by Miss Morgan with an almost psychological profundity amazing for her seventeen years--the interest is centered. Not beautiful except...