Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profaned, but we can scarcely imagine a finer reflection of the spirit with which our soldiers with one embrace clasped Death and Victory. From our point of view this is genuine art, since it has the happy faculty of satisfying both its admirers and detractors. Its admirers can always turn to it with the sure knowledge that they can recapture the exaltation of those years. Its detractors can rest assured that it will help many others, as it has helped us, on the path toward relentless isolationism. C. Avery Dulles '40 David Simboli...
...replacing, Nancy Kelly as the innocent daughter, is largely responsible, Mr. McGrath brings humor and sincerity to a small but important role. The rest of the cast is subordinated to Miss Lawrence for most of the play, but in the more serious third act Natalie Schafer and Charlotte Marley turn in sound performances. Fast-moving throughout, the play is at once hilarious and thought-provoking. It is 'hard' to ask for more...
These bank figures are commonly thought of as showing merely the condition of the banks. But they also show the business condition of the banks' customers. What is a deposit to a bank is a cash asset to some customer. Bank loans, in turn, are a large part of customers' short term liabilities. "Bank debits," checks drawn to all accounts, represent "gross sales" and thus reflect public spending. The trend of inventories bought with borrowed money may also be followed in the rise or fall of bank loans...
Shock From Lima, Peru, came a Decameronian tale: a stroke of lightning which ripped off all the clothes of a beautiful young woman in the streets of Calendin (pop.: 5,000), left her mute from shock. Shocked in his turn by the dazzling sight, a passer-by who had long been mute, recovered his powers of speech...
...graduate schools should be enlisted to help, and the support of the deans of the graduate schools should be secured so that they will immediately refer their foreign students to the Committee. Once they have settled their charges, the activities of the Committee should take a more social turn. Various members of the Faculty might easily be persuaded to entertain the foreign students in small groups along with any natives who were interested in meeting them...