Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge public works plans. Old George was for it; the Three against it. They split wider on unemployment insurance payments. Snowden, speaking of "treasury difficulties and impaired credit," favored increasing the premiums or reducing the benefits. Old George wanted neither. He told Snowden: "I never have been able to understand treasury economics. ... I can't see that ?20 taken from a rich man and given to 20 poor men means a loss of business. . . . Let's call for sacrifices all round. Instead of starting with the weak and hopeless-that is, the unemployed down-&-outs...
...unison is fairly common for U. S. deaf-mutes in urban centres. In Manhattan there are three congregations for them, Catholic, Episcopal and Jewish. Once a week Jews attend services supervised by Mrs. Tanya Nash, widow of a rabbi, who provides guest rabbis and interpreters. Because deaf persons cannot understand a person whose face or hands they cannot see, the parts of the Jewish ritual in which the rabbi's back is turned on the congregation have been eliminated. Catholic deaf-mutes in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are in charge of a kindly, white-haired Jesuit named...
FAMED in the scientific world as one of the few men, if not the only man, who could understand the intricate mathematics of Harvard's most famous higher mathematician, Benjamin Pierce, Thomas Hill is equally famed in the educational world as being not only an able scholar, but a sensible and efficient administrator. This life of Harvard's Twentieth President, Mr. Land has designed "to be merely an introduction of Dr. Hill to the world he left forty-two years ago." Few today are left who could expound the educational and mathematical theories of this...
...accounts of college life in the early forties and late thirties of the past century remain for public view today, but with the help of personal files this book contains an exceedingly fine contemporary account, written by Hill, of the Harvard of that time. This generation, brought up to understand that the boys of a century ago were polite little drones spending all of their time at the few books the country boasted, will receive an enjoyable shock at Hill's account of the antics of his confreres. He writes "there is a scandal-here, I don't care...
...attempt to transport the mail," said George F. Doriot, professor of Industrial Management at the Business School yesterday when interviewed by the CRIMSON. "It was perfectly natural to allow only the large concerns to bid for the contracts at the time they were issued, and I cannot understand why so many people are today complaining about this action...